Pharmanipulation explores how industry markets not only drugs, but diseases, and exposes ineffective or harmful practices in medicine. This series takes an evidence-based, edgy, and entertaining approach to health and medicine. Each episode features an interview with topic experts and provides resources to learn more about how the pharmaceutical and medical device industries influence medical knowledge and public health. Pharmanipulation is a podcast by PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center, directed by Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman.
Episode 8 features an interview with Shahram Ahari MD, an emergency medicine physician and former drug rep, that explores the world of pharmaceutical samples. We chat about why samples are the most important marketing tactic drug companies have, how samples are used to manipulate prescribing...
Published 03/06/24
Episode 7 features an interview with Peter Whitehouse MD, PhD and Lon Schneider MD, MS exploring dementia and mild cognitive impairment. We chat about the medicalization of normal aging, the overdiagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, problems with new drugs and tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and...
Published 12/13/23