From The People’s Pharmacy. Abstract "Americans spend more on drugs and have less to show for it than people in other countries. The FDA used to be the envy of the world. Has it been captured by the pharmaceutical industry it's supposed to regulate?" In this wide-ranging episode of The People's Pharmacy — one of the most substantive and practically useful interviews in the archive — Dr. Jerry Avorn joins hosts Joe and Terry Graedon for a 70-minute conversation covering the er

From Big Brains Podcast. Teaser/Abstract "When a patient gets a medication from their doctor or nurse practitioner, they assume that somebody has looked very carefully at this drug and determined that it is indeed effective for the purposes for which it's being given to you and that it's reasonably safe. I frankly think a lot of us doctors believe that that's all kind of taken care of as well." Source: Big Brains podcast, University of Chicago Podcast Network, Episode publish

From NPR's On Point. By Paige Sutherland and Deborah Becker. Teaser/Abstract "With more than 60% of Americans taking a prescription drug, there are increasing questions about how these medicines are approved, how they're kept safe and how they're priced. In a new book, Harvard's Dr. Jerry Avorn argues the drugs we take have been compromised by profits." Source: On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti, WBUR Boston, April 21, 2025. Host: Deborah Becker. Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

From the New England Journal of Medicine. By Jerry Avorn, MD. SUMMARY: In this NEJM Perspective written shortly after Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in Economics for behavioral economics, Dr. Avorn applies behavioral decision-making insights to clinical practice — particularly to prescribing decisions. Avorn argues that the simplified rational-actor model of physician decision-making fails to account for the psychological biases, heuristics, and cognitive shortcuts that s