The Truth About Drug Companies

This is a new book by a real insider. If you don't believe what we have been saying maybe you will believe her. At least it is some of the horrible truth. It is time America woke up to what is really happening in regards to our medical system. Rome fell for some very insidious and stupid reasons. Let us hope Geroge Santayana was wrong at least in our case.

Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician, she is a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. The article in this issue will appear in different form in her new book, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, to be published by Random House in August. (July 2004)

"The most startling fact about 2002 is that the combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together." -Marcia Angell, a former editor of the New England Journal Of Medicine THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DRUG COMPANIES...

See the NY Times article on this book at:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244?email