Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-02-11
Books mentioned on #263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sickening
Sickening by John Abramson is an investigative critique that exposes how big pharmaceutical companies and institutional corruption broke American healthcare, compromising scientific research and clinical trials in the process.
Discussed“you wrote the book overdosed america and the new book coming out now called sickening about how big pharma broke american healthcare including science and research and how we can fix it”
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Overdosed America
Overdosed America by John Abramson is a critical investigative book examining how pharmaceutical companies and commercial interests have negatively influenced medical research, healthcare practices, and public health policies in the United States.
Discussed“you wrote the book overdosed america and the new book coming out now called sickening about how big pharma broke american healthcare including science and research and how we can fix it”
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Capitalism and freedom
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman is a classic exposition of classical liberal economic theory advocating for the supremacy of competitive capitalism and limited government intervention.
Discussed“so you mentioned milton friedman and you mentioned his book called capitalism and freedom”
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Prozac nation
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel is a landmark memoir detailing the author's struggle with severe depression and chronicling the cultural emergence of psychopharmacology in the 1990s.
Discussed“But what's happened is that the publicity, I mean, 'Prozac Nation' was a good example of making the argument that why should people settle for normal happiness when they can have better than normal happiness? And if you're not feeling that normal happiness, you should take a drug.”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“the following is a conversation with john abramson faculty at harvard medical school a family physician for over two decades and author of the new book sickening about how big pharma broke american healthcare and how we can fix it”
“The following is a conversation with John Abramson, faculty at Harvard Medical School, a family physician for over two decades, and author of the new book 'Sickening' about how Big Pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it.”
“You wrote the book 'Overdosed America' and the new book coming out now called 'Sickening' about how Big Pharma broke American healthcare, including science and research, and how we can fix it.”
“and that's why i wrote sickening is to try and help those people in the medical profession to understand that what's going on right now looks normal”
“and what i'm hoping to do with my book sickening and being here having this wonderful conversation with you is to create an alternative to this normal that people can pursue and practice better medicine and also prevent burnout”