Jerry Avorn
Author of Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
About the Author
Jerry Avorn, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Image credit: Photo © 2004 Jeffrey Thiebauth
Works by Jerry Avorn
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs (2004) 103 copies, 1 review
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Avorn has put together an amazing explanation of how the pharmaceutical industry, physicians, and government don't work together in the United States. The most shocking part was that drug companies pay to collect data on what doctor is prescribing what to who. I would have thought that HIPAA covered patients here, but apparently not.
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