Avorn,Jerry

Avorn, Jerry. 2003. Advertising and Prescription Drugs Promotion, Education, and the Public Health. Health Affairs - Web ExcZwsive W3 104-108. 

Avorn, Jerry. 2004. Powerful Medicines The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs. New York Alfred A. Knopf... 

Jerry Avorn, MD Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA... 

To make this point, it is worth summarizing the views of several experts. Dr. Jerry Avorn of Harvard University lists these benefits of prescription drugs ... 

In 2005, Jerry Avorn wrote a prospective in the New England Journal of Medicine titled FDA Standards—Good Enough for Government... 

Doctors are worried about losing patients. They re not getting paid extra for the time they spend arguing. They can assume the advertised drug is safe. It s probably not much different from what they would have chosen anyway. I got a waiting room full of people, I m supposed to see a patient every seven minutes— you want Vioxx Here s a script [prescription] for Vioxx, sums up Jerry Avorn, the Harvard professor and specialist in pharmacoepidemiology. 

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