On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health

  1. Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD
  1. From University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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    Kassirer JP. 272 pages. New York: Oxford Univ Pr; 2005. $14.95. ISBN 0195300041. Order at http://www.oup.com.

    Fields of medicine: Medical ethics and economics.

    Format: Paperback book.

    Audience: Patients; the general public; and concerned physicians, residents, …

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