Drugs for Life

Author: Joseph Dumit
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00BM5XKWW
Category: Medical

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. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marketers, researchers, doctors, and patients; and surveyed the industry's literature regarding strategies to expand markets for prescription drugs. He concluded that underlying the continual growth in medications, disease categories, costs, and insecurity is a relatively new perception of ourselves as i Get Drugs for Life our bestseller medical books.

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