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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
October 20, 2005
Pages
251
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195300048
ISBN-10
0195300041
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$19.99
Other format details
university press
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Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense | Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine | Selling Sickness | Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime | Overdosed America | Bad Pharma | The Truth About The Drug Companies
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg that is distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans today.
In On the Take, Dr. Jerome Kassirer offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians' moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and institutions we trust most. Underscored by countless chilling untold stories, the book illuminates the financial connections between the wealthy companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them. Kassirer details the shocking extent of these financial enticements and explains how they encourage bias, promote dangerously misleading medical information, raise the cost of medical care, and breed distrust.
A brilliant diagnosis of an epidemic of greed, On the Take offers insight into how we can cure the medical profession and restore our trust in doctors and hospitals.
In On the Take, Dr. Jerome Kassirer offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians' moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and institutions we trust most. Underscored by countless chilling untold stories, the book illuminates the financial connections between the wealthy companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them. Kassirer details the shocking extent of these financial enticements and explains how they encourage bias, promote dangerously misleading medical information, raise the cost of medical care, and breed distrust.
A brilliant diagnosis of an epidemic of greed, On the Take offers insight into how we can cure the medical profession and restore our trust in doctors and hospitals.
Editions
Hardcover
from Oxford Univ Pr (October 18, 2004)
9780195176841 | details & prices | 251 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.12 lbs | List price $30.00
About: Illuminates the financial connections between companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them, detailing the extent of the payoffs and explaining how they raise the cost of medical care and promote misleading medical information.
About: Illuminates the financial connections between companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them, detailing the extent of the payoffs and explaining how they raise the cost of medical care and promote misleading medical information.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Oxford Univ Pr (October 20, 2005)
9780195300048 | details & prices | 251 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $19.99
About: We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts.
About: We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts.
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