For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs,… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost. — Marcia Angell Copy Share
Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure… — Marcia Angell Copy Share
