S4E1 - Rethinking Medications with Dr. Jerry Avorn, MD From Post Scrip. In this special edition premiere of Post Scrip, host Henry sits down with Dr. Jerry Avorn, MD, Harvard Medical School professor and author of the groundbreaking book Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power and the Drugs You Take. Dr. Avorn, a senior internist at Mass General Brigham and author of over 600 papers, takes us on a dive into the complex world of drug approval, pricing, and pharmaceutical policy.

From Science Based Medicine. By Jerry Avorn. This is an important book for our time ... Highly recommended! Dr. Avorn is uniquely qualified to write this book. He writes with the authority of seasoned scholar and the clarity of a skilled communicator. High profile examples are documented to illustrate his insights. The content is extraordinarily up to date. There are discussions of implications the 2024 election, in general, and the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Sec

From Kirkus Reviews. A masterful assessment of a highly flawed health care system. Unsettling news about prescription drugs. Avorn, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reminds readers that pharmaceutical companies, despite bitter opposition, were required to prove that their drugs worked beginning only in 1962. Ironically, their first mass support came from radicals when 1980s AIDS activists denounced the neglect and slow pace of anti-AIDS drug approval. Respondi

From Publishers Weekly. A damning survey of the drug development system’s many failures, this enlightens even as it infuriates. In this troubling report, Avorn (Powerful Medicines), a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, explores problems with the development and administration of medicine. Charting America’s history of underregulating drugs, Avorn notes that listing a medication’s contents on its container only became mandatory in 1906, and that a 1962 law marked