Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Ben Goldacre

448 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction health science challenging informative slow-paced
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Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it’s based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, wh...

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