Twentieth-century Florida authors Book

The author of this book is/was an MD and Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. In it he identifies the issues, explains the processes and in the final two pages outlines suggested corrections. He is very precise about how and why these problems occur and why the continue. The most shocking problems was when someone writes and gets published in an accepted journal and the article is negative about a medication or medical apparatus, advertising from the identified company begins ...more The author of this book is/was an MD and Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. In it he identifies the issues, explains the processes and in the final two pages outlines suggested corrections. He is very precise about how and why these problems occur and why the continue. The most shocking problems was when someone writes and gets published in an accepted journal and the article is negative about a medication or medical apparatus, advertising from the identified company begins to dry up. It seems the medical community wants "happy talk" about their products or they punish the ney sayers.
It is a very slow read but worth the information once you push through it.