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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Goldacre, Ben

Paperback

Health GeneralGeneral Science

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0865478066
ISBN13: 9780865478060
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: Apr 1 2014
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero. --Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about these drugs, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients.

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