Marcia Angell
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
- By: Marcia Angell
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2004
- Language: English
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and... Read more
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