How data manipulation led to excess deaths from the drug Vioxx (40:39).

relative risk for pharmaceutical drugs (31:16)

The core relationship between pharmaceutical companies and doctors (27:39).

Insulin and the exploitation of diabetes (26:37).

The first trial of a drug company found guilty of fraud and racketeering (25:34).

Abramson’s career path from family doctor to expert in pharmaceutical litigation (18:14) Abramson has appeared on Today, CNN’s American Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, The Dr. In addition to many academic articles and op-eds in the New York Times and other publications, he is the author of Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine.

He served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice, including in a case that resulted in the largest criminal fine in U.S. He also served as a family physician for 22 years, during which he was named a “top doctor” six times in local, state, and national surveys. Abramson is the author of the new book, Sickening, and has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years, where he teaches health care policy. Abramson shines a light on the dark underbelly of American health care-and presents a path toward genuine reform.ĭr. John Abramson to talk about the inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge-misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.

This week on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sat down with Dr. 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. The United States spends an excess of $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries-yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks at 68th in the world.

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