This book is lots of things: honest, funny, and ultimately heart breaking. I don’t remember how I came across it, but its a good read for when travelling as the diary format means you can put it down whenever you need to do something else. I’m left wondering how the Australian medical system compares to…
Tag: medicine
Bad Pharma
Another excellent book by Ben Goldacre. In this book he argues that modern medicine is terribly corrupted by the commercial forces that act largely unchecked in the marketplace — studies which don’t make a new drug look good go missing; new drugs are compared only against placebo and not against the current best treatment; doctors…
Bad Science
I’ve been trying to read one non-fiction book a month recently, and this is the one for January. This book is simply excellent and I’m glad I read it. It is clearly written, entertaining, and easy to understand. Yet it covers complex issues about how mis-reporting of medicine result in people dying. It covers statistical…