Good vs Bad

Good People:

In the Little Devices Lab at MIT, Jose Gomez-Marquez builds medical tools using a DIY mindset. He's designing cheap alternatives to existing hospital equipment to help spread high-quality medical care around the world. 

Gomez-Marquez is at the forefront of a large and often-unrecognized group of DIY medical tool builders.

 Together they are challenging the idea that staying healthy requires extraordinarily expensive, sophisticated equipment built by massive corporations. 

Harnessing this inventive energy, he argues, could improve the health of thousands of people around the world.

  Cook and Janitor of Nursing Home Kept Working without Pay Because 'If We Left, They Wouldn't Have Nobody'.

Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez stayed after the nursing home shuttered, working without pay or the help of any other staff

Bad People:

On Feb. 10, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. bought the rights to a pair of life-saving heart drugs. The same day, their list prices rose by 525% and 212%.

Neither of the drugs, Nitropress or Isuprel, was improved as a result of costly investment in lab work and human testing, Valeant said. Nor was manufacture of the medicines shifted to an expensive new plant. The big change: the drugs’ ownership.

 Verizon recently told a customer that upgrading his 50Mbps service to 75Mbps would result in smoother streaming of Netflix video. Of course, that's not true — Netflix streams at a rate of about 3.5 Mbps on average for Verizon's fiber service, so there's more than enough headroom either way. But this customer was an analyst for the online video industry, so he did some testing and snapped some screenshots for evidence.

 He fired up 10 concurrent streams of a Game of Thrones episode and found only 29Mbps of connection being used. 

This guy was savvy enough to see through Verizon's blowin~smoke, but I'm sure there are millions of customers who wouldn't bat an eye at the statements they were making. The analyst "believes that the sales pitch he received is not just an isolated incident, since he got the same pitch from three sales reps over the phone and one online."