Marcia Angell Quotes

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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain… All
• It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians… Authoritative
• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to… Administration
• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of… Antidepressants
• The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a… Antidepressants
• Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now… Academic
• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. Approach
• Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone,… Big
• The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants. Advanced
• The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This… Based
• 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 they… Actually Keep
• Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights. Brand
• Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. Alternative
• Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored,… Choose
• I do think that we are an overmedicated society. Society
• Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost. Affordable

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