#1756 - John Abramson

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It

Angus Deaton

Professor Deaton and Case wrote a book about diseases of despair and how non-college educated white Americans are having an epidemic of drug overdose…

This book elaborates on the issues caused by Big Pharma in the American healthcare system and proposes solutions.

What they do is they oversee the integrity of the medical knowledge that reaches doctors, and that's what I'm writing about in Sickening.

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John Abramson, MD, is a Harvard Medical School Lecturer, national drug litigation expert, and author. His new book, "Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It," will be available on February 8.

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Angus Deaton

Professor Deaton and Case wrote a book about diseases of despair and how non-college educated white Americans are hav…

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It

This book elaborates on the issues caused by Big Pharma in the American healthcare system and proposes solutions.

What they do is they oversee the integrity of the medical knowledge that reaches doctors, and that's what I'm writing…

How Big Pharma Broke America

The book discusses how Big Pharma has negatively impacted the American healthcare system and suggests ways to repair…

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