这可不是胡话。本戈尔达克尔的新书《医药行业的恶劣行径》便如是形容医药行业的现状。该作者是一名英国医生和科学作家,并以2008年出版的《科学的恶劣行径》而名声大噪。在该成名作中,他犹如《皇帝的新装》中的小孩一般,指证公众传媒大肆宣传的注毒诱发抗体、气功物理治疗、霍皮耳道滴蜡 等自欺欺人的安慰疗法都是伪科学。而在新书中,他则将触角伸向危害更为严重的领域:一个拥有6千亿美元市场容量的行业药业。在全球各地,无数医生正开出他们研究生产的各种药物。
The book is slightly technical, eminently readable, consistently shocking, occasionallyhectoring and unapologetically polemical. Medicine is broken, it declares on its first page,and the people you should have been able to trust to fix [its] problems have failed you. DrGoldacre describes the routine corruption of what is supposed to be an objective scientificprocess designed to assess whether new drugs work, whether they are better than drugsalready on the market and whether their side effects are a price worth paying for any benefitsthey might convey. The result is that doctors, and the patients they treat, are hobbled byneedless ignorance.
该书以专业门槛低、可读性强、时刻吸引读者兴趣、彻底颠覆药业形象、语言咄咄逼人又击中要害而颇具特色。药该倒了,他在首页便如是写道:那些本被寄予厚望医治病症的天使,如今却成了口蜜腹剑的恶魔。客观的科学探索过程应该具有三个评估作用。新药是否有效?是否优于市场上的药物?副作用与疗效之间是否具有较高的性价比?戈尔达克尔博士在书中详细描述了药业道德腐败的事实。医生和病人结果都被药企摆了一道,然而这种不知情本都可以避免。
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