Bad Pharma

Author: Ben Goldacre
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B008RLTUUA
Category: Medical

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. Download Bad Pharma medical books for free.
In reality, those tests and trialsAare often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptionsAfor everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, 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 ca Get Bad Pharma our bestseller medical books.

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