5.0 out of 5 stars Protect yourself against American Pharma: read the book
Reviewed in the United States
on February 11, 2014
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High blood pressure, high cholesterol,
pre-menstrual syndrome, ADD/ADHD, pre-diabetes, depression, anxiety, bi-polar
disorder, hormone replacement and other "diseases" are shown in the
book to be "symptoms, not diseases." So how did they get to be
diseases and produce billions of dollars in drug sales to treat them?
Marketing, misconceptions, mis-information, "buying doctors",
outright lies and even conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies throughout the
world have led to the unsuspecting public taking billions of pills that don't
help us and may even harm us.
How does that happen? Doctors, medical schools, clinical journals and even the
FDA employees are all dependent on pharmaceutical company dollars and that
leads to journal articles that are "ghost-written" by pharma
employees, sent to physicians who "assume" that they are true and disseminated
by pharma reps whose considerable income and continued employment depend on
convincing doctors to write more of their product. What about Congress? Also on
the payroll.
I spent 37 years in pharmaceuticals. I'm not proud of everything I did before I
realized that we were being fed a bunch of crap by our management and executive
teams, but I wish I had written this book. A little dated (2005) but still
valid and well written.
The manager who hired me with Pfizer in 1974 gave me a final piece of advice
before sending me out to sell - "always remember, drugs are made to be
sold, not taken." A very wise man.
Spend the money, read the book and next time you go to your doctor you'll be
better armed to ask questions, evaluate his advice and discover whether
he/she's the doctor you want to trust your life to.
I hope that Moynihan and Cassels are working on an update with information on
the other drugs that have come out since the original publication. I'll buy it.
