Pharmageddon
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520270983 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Healy’s contrarian streak and sharpness make this a disturbing, well-documented indictment that echoes many others in recent years, and one worth heeding.”
A must read for all of us in contact with the medical world 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 working with human beings' sufferings often needs more creativity than rigid guidelines. When working as a community psychiatrist we learn very rapidly the limits of what we were taught in academic forums and research literature. well researched and could easily reference facts 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 Jerry Woolpy 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 system that bypasses the diagnostic gaze of experienced physicians in favor of consensus checklists leading to prescriptions for patented drugs that are no better and often more dangerous than their expired patent antecedents. I
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 three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.. Healy further explains why these trends have basically ended the possibility of universal health care in the United States and elsewhere around the world. This searing indictment, David Healy’s mo