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Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
By Howard Brody
382 pp, $21.95
Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-5219-7
JAMA. 2008;300(22):2675-2676.
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The close relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry represents one of the greatest challenges to medical professionalism. Funding of medical education programs, sophisticated marketing techniques, and direct-to-consumer advertising are just a few, but important, modalities through which drug companies exert significant influence and pressure on physicians' prescribing habits. In his book Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, the author describes the present relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, assesses that relationship from the standpoint of ethics and policy, and suggests positive changes.
The densely written book captures one's attention and reads like a nonfiction thriller. One of the central claims of the book is that a tipping point has been reached in renegotiating the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, physicians will not understand the problem and will not be able to propose helpful solutions unless they see . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, Reviewer
Department of Family Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
info@miamihealth.com
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