Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre (Author). We like to think about that medicine relies on proof and the outcomes of truthful testing and medical trials. In reality, these tests and trials are sometimes profoundly flawed. We wish to think about that doctors who write prescriptions for every thing from antidepressants to most cancers medication to coronary heart medication are accustomed to the research literature a few drug, when in reality much of the analysis is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to think about that doctors are impartially educated, when in actuality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let solely efficient drugs onto the market, when in actuality they approve useless medication, with information on side effects casually withheld from docs and patients.
All these issues have been shielded from public scrutiny as a result of they’re too complex to seize in a sound bite. However Ben Goldacre reveals that the true scale of this murderous catastrophe absolutely reveals itself solely when the small print are untangled. He believes we must always all be able to perceive precisely how information manipulation works and the way analysis misconduct within the medical trade affects us on a global scale.
With Goldacre’s characteristic flair and a forensic consideration to detail, Unhealthy Pharma reveals a shockingly damaged system and calls for regulation. That is the pharmaceutical trade as it has by no means been seen before.
I've lately retired as a lecturer on an Allied Well being course, and I can actually say that my college students would have learned way more from this e-book about how research might be corrupted, and the way good research should be designed, than they would have executed from a yr of "Analysis" lectures at university. Yes, some of it is scary studying, but with this and "Dangerous Science," Ben Goldacre has given the world of medical analysis the kick up the backside it has sorely needed. As an added bonus, the writing model can be extremely readable.
This book is an intelligent, provocative, documented essay on pharmaceutical analysis as it's performed as we speak, and how it impacts (negatively) well being care for us all. Some readers may feel that the writer units the bar too high, or that he dangers demonising an trade which advantages us all. They'd be misguided as only writers as Ben Goldacre assist society advance the place it might and should be immediately: we deserve a lot more by one of many industries which ought to ship us so much more. When precision with details meets a passion for ethics and for improvement, you get one of the best books: this is one of them.
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre (Author)
448 pages
Faber & Faber; Reprint edition (February 5, 2013)
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