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During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine,Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacleof the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies strayfrom their original mission of discovering and manufacturing usefuldrugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedentedcontrol over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitlessinfluence over medical research, education, and how doctors dotheir jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularlythe elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiralingpre*ion drug prices. Now, in this bold, hard-hitting new book,Dr. Angell exposes the shocking truth of what the pharmaceuticalindustry has become–and argues for essential, long-overduechange. Currently Americans spend a staggering $200 billion each year onpre*ion drugs. As Dr. Angell powerfully demonstrates, claimsthat high drug prices are necessary to fund research anddevelopment are unfounded: The truth is that drug compa

From the profit-minded managers who make up the brain trust atThe Atlanta Consulting Group comes a simple new method hailed as arevolutionary management practice: learning to care.

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