How Drug Companies mislead Doctors and harm Patients

Edited extract from “Bad Pharma”

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds
The shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds ” which contains a long excerpt from Ben Goldacre‘s forthcoming book, Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients…

Where are the lessons learned from the DES drug tragedy?

3 thoughts on “How Drug Companies mislead Doctors and harm Patients”

  1. This is why I subscribe to Worst Pills Best Pills. Their advice? Do not use a new medication for seven years. Then check the page for reporting adverse reactions page on the FDA website. Allow other people to be the human guinea pigs. Seven years did not make a difference for DES, but for many drugs it does.
    Pat

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