Chronic
For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
Aeon,
2018
Recommendation
At the heart of the pharmaceutical industry lies a paradox: Devoted to helping people get well, the drug industry depends on patients staying sick. Clayton Dalton, a resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, traces the economic forces that influence research and treatment choices for chronic disease. For anyone interested in the business of health and disease, getAbstract recommends Dalton’s analysis of the interactions of money and medicine.
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About the Author
Clayton Dalton is a medical resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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