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Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks and Costs of Prescription Drugs (G 3)
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Never read.”
- Subject
- Health Education
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Topic
- United States
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780375414831
- EAN
- 9780375414831
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Powerful Medicines : the Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 29.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug's safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced.This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone- our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans.In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer- How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation's drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why do those decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls?Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry's own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible.This is a passionate and provocative call for action as well as a compelling work of clear-headed science.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375414835
ISBN-13
9780375414831
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30221871
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Powerful Medicines : the Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd9666.5.A94 2004
Reviews
"Only Jerry Avorn, with his insider's penetrating vision, could show us the triumphs and travesties, promises and perils of today's prescription drugs. Refreshingly, he not only diagnoses the ills of our current system but proposes novel remedies that we are well advised to heed." --Jerome Groopman, M.D. "In Powerful Medicines , Dr. Avorn brilliantly demonstrates the corrosive effects of commercial influence over medical research, education, and clinical care. This impressive book demonstrates the adverse effects such privatization can have on the health care system and ultimately on patients." -- Bernard Lown, M.D., Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health "A book that is at once engrossing and definitive." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition Harvard Graduate School of Education, "Only Jerry Avorn, with his insider's penetrating vision, could show us the triumphs and travesties, promises and perils of today's prescription drugs. Refreshingly, he not only diagnoses the ills of our current system but proposes novel remedies that we are well advised to heed." --Jerome Groopman, M.D. "InPowerful Medicines,Dr. Avorn brilliantly demonstrates the corrosive effects of commercial influence over medical research, education, and clinical care. This impressive book demonstrates the adverse effects such privatization can have on the health care system and ultimately on patients." -- Bernard Lown, M.D., Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health "A book that is at once engrossing and definitive." --Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition Harvard Graduate School of Education From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Administration, Health Care Issues, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Health Policy
Lccn
2003-066119
Dewey Decimal
338.4/36151/0973
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Business & Economics, Health & Fitness, Medical
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