Overdosed America
ISBN 978-0060568535| $ 11,16
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By John Abramson
The Broken Promise of American Medicine
According to Abramson, Americans are falling prey to marketing campaigns, and thus demand unnecessary and expensive drugs and procedures, believing they constitute the best possible medical care. Wrong, says Abramson: though more post–heart attack procedures are performed in the U.S. than in Canada, one-year survival rates are the same.
Abramson deconstructs the scientific sleight of hand in presenting clinical trial results that leads to the routine prescription of pricey cholesterol-lowering drugs even when their effectiveness has not been proven.
He makes a powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray and needs a new paradigm—one untainted by profits.