Pharmaphobia (eBook)

How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation

Thomas P. Stossel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
332 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4463-4 (ISBN)

Infos

While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system, rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community, political groups, and private businesses, by illustrating how such cooperation can result in world-class innovation and health care delivery.

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For millennia, human survival depended on our innate abilities to fight pathogens and repair injuries. Only recently has medical science prolonged longevity and improved quality of life. Physicians and academic researchers contribute to such progress, but the principal contributor is private industry that produces the tools drugs and medical devices enabling doctors to prevent and cure disease. Heavy regulation and biology's complexity and unpredictability make medical innovation extremely difficult and expensive. Pharmaphobia describes how an ideological crusade, stretching over the last quarter century, has used distortion and flawed logic to make medical innovation even harder in a misguided pursuit of theoretical professional purity. Bureaucrats, reporters, politicians, and predatory lawyers have built careers attacking the medical products industry, belittling its critical contributions to medical innovation and accusing it of non-existent malfeasance: overselling product value, flaunting safety and corrupting physicians and academics who partner with it. The mania has imposed ';conflict-of-interest' regulations limiting or banning valuable interactions between industry and physicians and researchers and diverting scarce resources from innovation to compliance. The victims are patients suffering from cancer, dementia, and other serious diseases for which new treatments are delayed, reduced, or eliminated as a result of these pointless regulations. With breathtaking detail, Thomas Stossel shows how this attack on doctors who work with industry limits medical innovation and inhibits the process of bringing new products into medical care.

Autor

Thomas P. Stossel, M.D., is a hematologist and medical researcher at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is the American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine. He has authored more than 290 publications and two textbooks, and is an inventor on 11 issued patents. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the founder and scientific director of two biotechnology start-up companies, a cofounder - along with his wife Kerry Maguire, D.D.S., M.S.P.H. and others - of the medical outreach organization Options for Children in Zambia, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Inhalt

Part II: Why We Have a Medical Innovation CrisisChapter 14: The Lawyers’ BallPart IV: The Damage They Do and How to Stop ItChapter 15: The Price We PayChapter 16: What Is To Be Done?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4463-1 / 1442244631
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4463-4 / 9781442244634