Volume 22, Issue 1 - Medical Writing Education
In the Bookstores
Authors: Adam Jacobs, Stephen Gilliver
Abstract
Bad Pharma is the latest book by the well-known anti-quackery campaigner Ben Goldacre, and attempts to explain to us that medicine is broken. Despite the title, he criticises not only the pharmaceutical industry, but also regulators, doctors, academic clinical researchers, ethics committees, and various other players in the world of clinical research. His take home message (I don't think a spoiler alert is really needed here!) is that we simply can't trust the evidence that we see about the efficacy and safety of drugs in common use.
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References
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- Leventhal PS. What are the most common reasons for a manuscript to be rejected (and how can they be avoided)? Medical Writing 2012;21(1):66–8.
- Writing an Abstract. Writing Centre, the University of Adelaide. Available from: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/writingcentre/learning_guides/learningGuide_writingAnAbstract.pdf
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