Drugs and doctors

A damning book review, written by an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, against the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry. 

The problems I've discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of TheNew England Journal of Medicine.

The medical profession is truly losing the trust of the public.  Consider the rising rate of people opting out of immunizing their children.  After reading articles like this, you can almost sympathize.