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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare Paperback – Aug. 28 2013

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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close comparisons with the tobacco conglomerates, revealing the extraordinary truth behind efforts to confuse and distract the public and their politicians. The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry...If you don't think the system is out of control, please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death...If such a hugely lethal epidemic had been caused by a new bacterium or a virus, or even one-hundredth of it, we would have done everything we could to get it under control." FROM THE INTRODUCTION

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1846198844
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978-1846198847
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CRC Press
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Aug. 28 2013
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English
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15.57 x 1.85 x 22.23 cm
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322 pages
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Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 1st edition (Aug. 28 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846198844
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846198847
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 476 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.57 x 1.85 x 22.23 cm

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HR

Mandatory Reading...in my opinion

Reviewed in Canada on September 18, 2016

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THIS BOOK SHOULD be MANDATORY READING FOR ANYONE ALREADY 'PRACTICING' OR ENTERING THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. I strongly recommend EVERYONE read this book. I can attest to the fact that doctors get nervous when called out on this issue and make more appropriate judgement calls when prescribing medications; likely due to your knowledge. Become informed, challenge the status quo and big pharma; your life or the life of a loved one may depend on this knowledge.

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Henry B

A Shocking Revelation of How Big Pharma Really Operates

Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2014

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This book should be on every med school curriculum and required reading for every citizen. As a doctor myself, I knew that the corruption of the healthcare system by the drug companies was bad, but I didn't know how bad. Gotzsche's book lifts the curtain on every dirty trick the drug companies use to co-opt medical researchers and, being the researcher he is, he backs every statement up with references. Sadly, we have to come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as 'evidenced-based' medicine. Medications have been formulated for optimum outcome; it's just that this outcome is for maximum financial benefit of the drug companies and has nothing to do whatsoever with the healthful improvement of the patient.

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Excellent

Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2021

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Très bon livre qui nous en apprend beaucoup sur ce qui se passe aujourd’hui

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Lori

This book is full of research and evidence

Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2018

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This book is full of research and evidence illustrating the deceptions of Big Pharma and the true cost of a human life. I did get slightly annoyed by the author's writing style.

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Nicholas Herten-Greaven

Gotzsche lays it all out.

Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2014

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Excellent book. The latest of its genre on the pharmaceutical industry's grip on research, on the health of persons, and on the medical profession and the way medicine is practised. Like all other books before it, Gotzche fails to come up with a solution.

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Teresa Costa

This book is an eye opener for anyone who wants ...

Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2017

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This book is an eye opener for anyone who wants to understand the role of the big pharmaceutical companies in health care. Must Read!

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Gotzsche = Snowden of medicine

Reviewed in Canada on July 21, 2014

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I am immensely grateful to Peter Gotzsche for having written this extraordinarily courageous and fascinating book. This is a case where reality surpasses your worse nightmares.
Dr Gotzsche is the Snowden of medicine.

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Margaret Agnew

We must change our concept of medicine and rely less on "easy" ways of getting better with pills and work harder on preventing d

Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2014

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A fascinating read. Whilst I have always questioned every script that I have been given, I will question every one with far mor rigour in the future.

We must change our concept of medicine and rely less on "easy" ways of getting better with pills and work harder on preventing disease .

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Martin Orsted

Great read, great passion, sad reality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2014

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Peter Gøtzsche is in angry man. When you read his book it becomes clear why. In the book he documents with many examples the unhealthy relationship between the major pharmaceutical corporations on one side, and FDA and EMA, the universities and the medical doctors on the other side. It is an incestuous and downright corrupt relationship.

The author lives what he preaches, as he is a member of the Danish group Doctors without Sponsors, and he is clearly very knowledgeable and experienced. He has managed to produce a page turner here, and he doesn't pull his punches when he gives examples with names of doctors that have "prostituted" themselves and have become paid shrills for the industry, a fact they try to hide.

Reading the book you learn about the great crime Merck committed doctoring the data on Vioxx, which in the book is estimated to have cost 130,000 lives. You learn how the DSM manual is really a way of introducing new diagnoses that can then be monetized. An example is given of grief, where for DSM III the "acceptable" period for grief was one year before it was considered a clinical depression. In DSM IV this changed to two months, and in DSM V this became two weeks. You learn about how wholly unreliable and unscientific psychiatry is, and how dangerous happy pills really are, causing more harm than good. Actually, I started reading this book because of an article Peter Gøtzsche had in the Danish newspaper Politiken where he strongly recommended banning Psychopharma to kids, and generally criticized the extreme over use of Psychopharma. That got me interested and made me purchase and read the book.

Throughout the book it is clear that the author knows his area extremely well. The book is easy to read and in general whenever something new is introduced it comes with a good description. So the role of EMA and FDA is clearly explained, what an NSAID is (Vioxx is from that class of drugs), how evidence based medicine works, what the DSM is, ghost writing, how you can cheat with results, etc.

The book can be read by people without a medical background like me, but it might help reading for example Ben Goldacre's two books first, since this book is pretty fast moving covering loads of areas, so Ben's book would be good primers, but by no means necessary!

For me as a layperson some of the numbers that the author quotes seem a bit high, for example the estimate of 130,000 dead due to Vioxx, but in the book the author does go through the calculations that leads him to the conclusions, and they seem sound, so it could well be just me not used to seeing those kind of numbers attributed to a single medicine, that is downright scary!

As stated before the book is full of examples, and the author names the individual people involved and responsible by name in general. Frankly, to me that is gutsy, and I like that approach, it shows he is certain of his facts. Great read, I cannot recommend it enough, but it does paint a depressing picture. I guess the good news is that after reading the book you stand a better chance of becoming an informed consumer in this space, the last chapter has several recommendations, and that can only be a good thing.

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acidtest

Very factual and absorbing volume

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2016

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Gotzsche has the guts to take the pharma sector and the corrupt medical practitioners full on. Having myself been a victim in the receiving end of corrupt medical practices for 17 years, I know what he says is the truth and he offers some interesting empirical facts, hard to ignore. I take my hat off to him. In recent years, we are seeing a growing admirable bunch of honest professional scientists who take to the stage to denounce the corrupt link between current medical practice, the multi billion pharma sector and the medical regulators, and this can only be a good omen for justice. If anything, Gotzsche is very factual in his exposure, and having read other books and articles by other dissenting scientists, I know he has created a masterpiece, I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.

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Garthl

This is a book that shocks your cherished beliefs about the integrity of the medical profession

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2014

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The book is both compelling and deeply disturbing
Not only did it raise a different explanation of the effects of placebos but it raised some very disturbing questions about the effectiveness of certain drugs.
We have been fooled into thinking that the pharmaceutical industry is ably supporting the medical profession in improving the health of mankind. Far from it! It is more likely that the improvements in longevity have had little to do with the pharmaceutical industry. Most useful (and older) drugs were chance discoveries and the modern replacements are in a lot of cases money spinners that have been foisted on us - sometime through fraudulent science and most often through commercial inducement, undue influence and practises that are tantamount to bribery

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MvB

Heavy going but what a worthwhile book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2014

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This book is a must to those who values their sanity, health and live however, reading it, for me personally, was a right slog for this is not the easiest book to read. Necessary, timely, important – yes. Well-researched – yes. Easy to read – no. Instead of building a logical string of how, the so-called “modern medicine”, overtook and overthrown the normal, “traditional” medicine and has conspired to destroy, kill and maim millions of people across the world, while polluting our environment, all in search of profit, we are left to read a parade of criminal rap-sheet of every pharmaceutical company on the planet. The good doctor seems not to realise that those who buy his book already know how pharmaceutical industry operates and take much better care of their bodies than the rest of the population – we cannot be shocked. The rest however, who will get a great deal of insight from this book that can go a long way towards saving their own lives as well as that of their families resulting from them reading this book, will find it a bit bland, dismiss it as sensationalist and be on their merry way to the early grave. An important and sincere book but an opportunity missed, I believe.

15 people found this helpful

rod nelson 48

PLEASE PLEASE read this book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2014

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This book is a MUST READ for anyone who cares about 'health' provision. The story is relevant to everyone, whether they know it or not and Peter Goetsche has the credentials that make this book a potential game-changer for society. It is also a story that is quite breathtaking in its scope and should make us all angry with the magnitude of the crime against society that has been and is being committed. This is a story of theft and murder.
If you are a doctor, a politician or involved professionally, it is doubly important that you know what is in this book, and know that it is only as a result of you taking action that this crime can begin to be addressed.
Peter Goetsche has a whole lifetime of experience at the centre of the medical establishment and is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, which is like a beacon of clarity in the midst of a fog of confusion, spin and corruption.

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