![]() ![]() In the book, Abramson reveals how doctors are regularly duped into prescribing expensive drugs with extreme side effects while major pharmaceutical companies rake in record profits. In “ Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It,” Abramson sets out to answer the “paradox of American health care,” building his case using the testimony of patients and former drug executives.īOOK REVIEW - “Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It,” by John Abramson (Mariner Books, 336 pages). trails behind the average for 28 other countries.Īccording to John Abramson, a health care policy lecturer at Harvard Medical School, the sap of this poisoned tree is so-called Big Pharma, the coalition of drug companies that have structured American health care into a money-generating machine. There is the diabetes crisis, the obesity crisis, and, of course, the despair crisis, which includes the rising tide of suicides, alcohol poisoning, and drug overdoses - claiming an average of 70,000 lives annually from 2005 to 2019. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated health disparities, crisis on top of crisis has compounded to create even more devastating conditions for a growing number of people, especially marginalized groups. ![]() ![]() C ompared to other high-income countries, the fitness of Americans is in dismal shape - and has been declining for decades. ![]()
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