Book description
The inside story of how Big Pharmaâs relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledgeâmisleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.
The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countriesâyet the amount of time that Americans live in goodâŠ
Why read it?
2 authors picked Sickening as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It explained why health care in the U.S. isn't working and hasn't worked for me in important ways. I now rely more on my sense of my health and do my own research. Generally, ask for a second opinion when I don't feel comfortable with the first.
If you think that medical journals published by respected medical societies are full of good science, think again.
For me, Abramsonâs Sickening nailed the case for a conclusion that the net effect of the many hundreds of medical journals published here and around the world is to subtract from the sum of human medical knowledge.
Abramson, as an expert witness in criminal and civil cases against drug companies, draws in part on subpoenaed documents to expose how medical science, as part of the entire medical-industrial complex, is corrupted from start to finish by the drug industryâs funding of mostâŠ
From Peter's list on The best books about the entanglement of medicine, politics, and pharmaceuticals.
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