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White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures On The Dark Side Of Medicine (2010)

by Carl Elliott(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0807061425 (ISBN13: 9780807061428)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Beacon Press

review 1: Having just graduated from nursing school a few short years ago, I cannot help but wag my fingers at the educational puppets we've become and the parade that walks the halls of our hospitals. From IRBs to the "meat-puppets"--and I'm not sure which puppets are worse--, you'd be surprised at the rather un-sturdy scaffolding on which our healthcare system is built.Carl gives an excellent incite into how these fraudsters and "trusted" professionals go out of their way to make healthcare work, but not necessarily for our benefit and livelihood.
review 2: The emperor has no clothes. This book purports to criticize the misdeeds of pharmaceutical science without demonstrating any scientific rigor itself. In short, despite pages of references, it is little more than a r... moreant that parades individual opinions as facts and extrapolates those opinions into supposed truths. There is no consideration of all perspectives as would be expected in any fair and balanced scientific analysis. Carl Elliot discredits himself and his position with such trite analysis. Yes, there are problems in the pharma industry, but this book offers no viable recommendations to solve them and instead chooses to demonize thousands of scientists for their money-grubbing ways. How much money is he making with this book? Is any of it being donated to patient advocacy programs? less

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