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Resumen del Editor
In this explosive expose of the drug companies and how they are ripping us off, Marcia Angell, M.D., a doctor, medical journalist, and a former editor of the respected New England Journal of Medicine, reveals the many ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has moved away from its original purpose of finding and producing useful new drugs.
Now primarily a marketing machine that produces drugs of questionable benefit, the industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt such institutions as the US Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), academic medical centers, as well as the medical profession. In spite of a lack of innovative drugs and continuously growing prices, the drug companies invest most of their time and money in marketing, legal maneuvers to extend patient rights, and government lobbying to prevent price regulation.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"A searing indictment.... Angell mounts a powerful case (and offers specific suggestions) for reform of this essential industry." (Publishers Weekly)
"Pharamceutical companies will need a new miracle pain reliever after the whipping they receive from Marcia Angell in her book...a starting point for serious discussion." (The Hartford Courant)
"If youve ever suffered prescription-drug sticker shock, Dr. Marcia Angell's The Truth About the Drug Companies is the book for you." (Newsday)
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Learn how big Pharma sells drugs by faking their studies. Understand the lies they stuff into websites and medical journals. Learn why it all gets ignored (hint: Pharma has the largest criminal settlements in history). Learn how to conquer healthcare costs. Medical spending per person is double that of other countries and it is the top reason for US personal bankruptcy. I will show you how to escape the over-billing and prosper anyway.
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- De Karen Grevious en 04-09-23
De: Robert Yoho MD
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Bad Pharma
- How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
- De: Ben Goldacre
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by industry.
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A must read for health professionals
- De zerodynamics en 03-01-13
De: Ben Goldacre
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Sickening
- How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
- De: John Abramson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals.
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Great info, but I’m confused…
- De Iread en 04-04-22
De: John Abramson
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Pharma
- Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet, exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
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Great book, but with some issues
- De Irina en 06-12-20
De: Gerald Posner
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An American Sickness
- How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
- De: Elisabeth Rosenthal
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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It is well documented that our health-care system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship, explaining step by step the workings of a profession sorely lacking transparency.
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Not well balanced
- De Anonymous User en 02-12-18
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Bottle of Lies
- The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
- De: Katherine Eban
- Narrado por: Katherine Eban
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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From an award-winning Fortune reporter, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals the life-threatening dangers posed by globalization - The Jungle for pharmaceuticals.
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overbearing self-righteous indignation
- De VB en 01-13-20
De: Katherine Eban
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Butchered by "Healthcare"
- What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
- De: Robert Yoho MD
- Narrado por: Robert Yoho
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Learn how big Pharma sells drugs by faking their studies. Understand the lies they stuff into websites and medical journals. Learn why it all gets ignored (hint: Pharma has the largest criminal settlements in history). Learn how to conquer healthcare costs. Medical spending per person is double that of other countries and it is the top reason for US personal bankruptcy. I will show you how to escape the over-billing and prosper anyway.
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- De Karen Grevious en 04-09-23
De: Robert Yoho MD
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America's Bitter Pill
- Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare.
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Great history, questionable solutions
- De Andrew S. Breza en 01-14-15
De: Steven Brill
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Overdiagnosed
- Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health
- De: Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Steven Woloshin, Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients.
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Agreed, Too Many Medical Interventions
- De Pamela Harvey en 09-12-12
De: Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, y otros
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Code Blue
- Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex
- De: Mike Magee MD
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 14 h
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How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country - such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"?
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Beware
- De Kathi en 06-09-19
De: Mike Magee MD
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For Blood and Money
- Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
- De: Nathan Vardi
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug and how the core team—denied their share of the profits—went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention of two of the biggest cancer drugs in history became (for their backers) two of the greatest Wall Street bets of all time.
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Must-read for biotech enthusiasts and scientists
- De Anonymous User en 03-16-23
De: Nathan Vardi
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The Price We Pay
- What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
- De: Marty Makary MD
- Narrado por: Marty Makary MD
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen and a series of elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up.
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Very important book!
- De Wayne en 05-17-21
De: Marty Makary MD
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Follow the Science
- How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
- De: Sharyl Attkisson
- Narrado por: Sharyl Attkisson
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now, with her signature investigative rigor and uncompromising commitment to the facts, Sharyl Attkisson takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through the dark underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry.
De: Sharyl Attkisson
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- Greg
- 05-22-07
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This is a very important book. Something needs to be done about our pharmaceutical industry. But the narrations is poor. It's presentation is difficult at times to listen to due to terrible pronunciation. Birch Bayh is called Bay instead of By and due to his legistation's importance, it is repeated many many times. Bona Fide is called bona fidEE. And many more. Don't readers have producers? Does anyone correct these?
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- Henry
- 07-14-13
True 10 years ago and still true today.
Would you listen to The Truth About the Drug Companies again? Why?
Yes. As a healthcare researcher this was an eye-opener into how pharma did business and still does today, even if a little less openly than before. As a person who had studied cases of pharma misconduct in the last few years I was surprised to learn from this book about the same practices 10 years ago. Nowadays, Ben Goldacre et al are still talking about these issues. I just wonder when it will end and truthfulness and transparency prevail?
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- Barbara
- 10-19-10
Good read, vital information
I listened to this audio on a long trip to Virginia, it kept me awake and alert. I found the audio quite statisfactory, and the information clear and easy to understand. I was too engrossed by the subject to be concerned about pronunciation. It seems we all must be our own advocates considering the current state of our health system. Dr. Angell's description of how the drug industry uses powerful marketing and questionable research is indeed important information.
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- kieu
- 02-03-12
Good information that should be spread further!
Few stories in the book were known to me before my reading, yet its so much better to know the entire big picture and see all pieces of the puzzle put together.
Currently the pharmaceutical industry and the economy as a whole has so many ailments, which should and can be cured. Each of us can help with the cure by sharing this knowledge. Some of the things mentioned in this book, is not just wrong, but outrageously wrong.
The narrator is excellent. Its hard to be distracted from her. She knows best all the points to stress, or to lighten up!
Definitely recommend!
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- Douglas C. Bates
- 12-16-12
Screed Against the Pharmaceutical Companies
Having worked in the pharmaceutical contract research industry, I have observed that for the most part the author's fundamental complaints about the pharmaceutical industry are correct. The public desperately needs to know about how the industry has gotten out of control. Its greed is now a major drain on the health and wealth of the world, but most particularly that of the United States. This book is an excoriating expose of the industry.
For at least my taste, this book would have been much better if it were not so much a one-sided rant. The invention, development, and marketing of pharmaceuticals is complex and requires trade-offs. The author tends towards going over the top about about the sins of the drug companies and sees only what's bad. There's lots of sin to write about. But there's not a hint of balance to the author's work. A more reasonable presentation, with a little more perspective on why the drug companies see things as they do and act as they do, would have made the author's arguments more compelling and her book more interesting.
The author's tone is exacerbated by the reader's tone, which is chronically scolding. It's not pleasant to listen to hours of scolding. Further marring the performance is that reader mispronounces several key names that are important to the story and are repeated many times, such as the name of Senator Birch Bayh.
The author's fundamental points are critically important and should be widely known. For just that fact this book is worth reading. But the message will probably not become more widely known until it is delivered by a better author.
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- michael
- 01-14-12
It's a stinger missile at luxurious coporate jets
Well written, well analyzed, and a total indictment about the greed and corruption that is these corporate greedy @$$holes. It really is unbelievable, well I take that back, it is totally believable that the U.S. consumers have been taken for such huge suckers, especially with this medicare prescription drug benefit. It makes you wonder at the real underlying problem, and that is just who do the politicians in Congress work for?
This book is eye opening.
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- A. Yoshida
- 09-06-22
Research the Drugs You Take
There have been many shocking pharmaceutical scandals, like the price hikes of EpiPens, over-prescribed opioids, and recalls of drugs known to have adverse effects. This book explains how big pharma can get away with such mercenary practices. The beginning of the book is a little dry with the use of a lot of scientific and financial terms to explain that big pharma companies would not be cutting into R&D if they lowered their prices. They are spending more on marketing than R&D, which can be cut if they weren't pushing their expensive drugs onto the public. If you take any medication, this book will lead you to question whether you were prescribed the appropriate drug or even if you should have been prescribed that drug at all. Big pharma companies have labeled natural conditions as diseases. Children are no longer rambunctious; they have ADHD. Women no longer go through menopause; they have a hormonal imbalance. People no longer have bad days; they have mild depression. And guess what the solution is - drugs.
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- Judith
- 05-26-11
The truth about the drug companies
Best book I ever read! I am a nurse practitioner and I can't tell you how enlightening this book is, every medical professional should read it, in addition to the rest of the world! It has certainly changed my prescribing practices.
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- ShopFancyStuff
- 11-23-21
Very informative and eye opening!
I appreciate the author doing real research and brave enough to write a book on it!
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- Yi-Shen Ma
- 01-25-19
wonderful
This book is thorough, informed, and courageous. Still very much relevant today. I highly recommend.
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