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.
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