"John Abramson" is an American physician and the author of the book Overdosed America/Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine. He has worked as a family doctor in Appalachia and in Hamilton, Massachusetts, and has served as chairman of the department of family practice at Lahey Clinic. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow and is on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he teaches primary care.

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Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol.

Long-term liability.

Much of the scientific evidence that doctors rely upon to prescribe drugs is more like infomercials than scientific evidence.

I think all the drug companies are behaving the same way and I think it's because they have to, ... Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine.

It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a sustainable situation that investors can benefit from, I can't answer that.

I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. They're selling the belief that their drug is superior, but they're not marketing superior drugs. If they want to improve the public's perception of their work, then they better improve their work.

Sense of autonomy.