Bad Pharma - How Medicine Is Broken, And How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre

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Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits b y design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the science behind medicine, and BAD PHARMA is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them. This 2013 Fourth Estate Paperback is in good condition. Slightly foxed but otherwise good. ISBN: 9780007498086 SKU: 1581333 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more