Money over medicine in today’s book

How bad is America’s healthcare system? Many already feel that the need to make profit is more important for pharmaceutical companies, but the author of today’s book believes it to be much worse.

White Coat, Black Hat by Carl Eliot contains many purportedly true horror stories from the medical world. Companies letting money jeopardize the testing process, secretly bankrolling every-day physicians, patients as consumers with no chance for advocacy, scholarly research journals depending on drug corporations’ advertising dollars, huge gifts frequently accepted by doctors from companies… It’s a big, scary list! It should be interesting for anyone entering the medical profession, people concerned with patients’ rights and advocacy, or anyone with a shady doctor.