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His view is proper evidence and transparency with proper regulation is the only way to move forward. Bad pharma, how drug companies mislead doctors and harm. Bad pharma is a book about the failure of implementing evidence based clinical medicine, the factors contributing to it and the fake fixes. This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry.
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