Pharmageddon
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520270983 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A must read for all of us in contact with the medical world" according to Bg. Working as a psychiatrist in different countries, systems and settings as I did during the last 25 years has taught me that nothing is ever written in stone. What is considered safe and effective in one place may be looked at as harmful or useless in another. Psychiatry is definitively not an exact science and. well researched and could easily reference facts Sonja O enjoyed reading this - many similar books out there but this one is more in depth and easy to read. Do yourself a favour, especially of you are on any kind of chronic medication.. Big Pharm’s wants versus the Health Needs of the Rest of Us Big Pharm’s wants versus the Health Needs of the Rest of UsReview : Pharmageddon, by David HealyThis book explains why, despite paying the highest costs among developed nations, we in the US are experiencing relatively poorer and poorer mortality and morbidity. It is because we have created a health care
“Healy’s contrarian streak and sharpness make this a disturbing, well-documented indictment that echoes many others in recent years, and one worth heeding.”
These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to th