On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
by Kassirer, M.D. Jerome P
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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 aniceberg 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 theeveryday 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...
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- Title
- On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
- Author
- Kassirer, M.D. Jerome P
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0195300041
- ISBN 13
- 9780195300048
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- This edition first published
- August 19, 2005
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