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“pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to change the treatment decisions of doctors: in fact, they spend twice as much on marketing and advertising as they do on the research and development of new drugs. Since we all want doctors to prescribe medicine based on evidence, and evidence is universal, there is only one possible reason for such huge spends: to distort evidence-based practice.”
― Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
― Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
“Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is, because it’s not in anyone’s financial interest to conduct any trials at all.”
― Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
― Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
“Britain objected to any depletion of sovereignty – the right to treat others as it wished – or international oversight. It took this position even if the price was more ‘injustice and oppression’.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
― East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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