Pharmageddon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520275764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Healy's contrarian streak and sharpness make this a disturbing, well-documented indictment that echoes many others in recent years, and one worth heeding."--"Publishers Weekly""Powerful. And he also offers a solution."--"Human Givens" . Healy exposes the secrets that enable drug companies to circumvent protections
These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials. Healy further explai
"a medical classic the day it ws published" according to John M. Nardo. Dr. Healy moves beyond the boundaries of his specialty, psychiatry, to describe how the changes in Medicine and Medical Care we all perceive are, in fact, symptomatic of the increasing dominance of our Healthcare systems by a vast medical-industrial complex that increasingly drives every aspect of Medicine. He shows how previous "reforms" - prescription drugs, the formation of the FDA, Clinical Trials, Patent Laws, etc. have been co-opted by industry over the years - turning previous "reforms" into strangle-holds that have shaped and contorted traditiona. If you only knew This book is chock full of evidence that the corruption of the medical system in this country is deep and pervasive. The most important bottom line message is that this corruption has a serious effect on the quality of healthcare delivered by even the most conscientious doctors, nurses, and hospitals.Those who should be looking out for the best interests of patients are mostly failing to do their jobs, even if they are not actively participating in the corruption. For instance, the allegedly prestigious New England Journal of Medicine makes no attempt to. Publicly posted as said It's an easy and well-presented interesting read for a general audience and. It's an easy and well-presented interesting read for a general audience and maybe some clinical folks. Most books are by nature several years old by the time I read them. Therefore, by definition, they're a bit out of date insofar as anything in most recent few years is absent therein. That's not a fault but a fact for technically minded people who also need to keep up to date for professional purposes. So, think of the author's narrative as lecture on the history of the topic. If that's all you need, then read this book. Entertaining to me, too. Also, I