Marcia Angell
 Marcia Angell    (doctor) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | April 20, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | James Madison University, Boston University School of Medicine | |||||||||||||
"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 the New England Journal of Medicine."
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Marcia Angell is an American physician, author, and the first woman to work as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She then became Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2]
“No one knows the total amount provided by drug companies to physicians, but I estimate from the annual reports of the top 9 U.S.-based drug companies that it comes to tens of billions of dollars a year in North America alone.By such means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the definition of what constitutes a disease.”
Marcia Angell (2009) [3]
Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
Biography
After completing undergraduate studies in chemistry and mathematics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Angell spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar studying microbiology in Frankfurt, Germany. After receiving her M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine in 1967, Angell trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
Angell joined the editorial staff of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1979. She became Executive Editor in 1988, and was interim Editor-in-Chief from 1999 until June 2000.[4] The NEJM is the oldest continuously published medical journal,[5] and one of the most prestigious[4] in the medical-pharmaceutical complex.
A Quote by Marcia Angell
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| Big pharma | “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 the New England Journal of Medicine.” | 2009 |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060901175126/http://web.med.harvard.edu/healthcaucus/ac_angell.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130722185457/http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/uploads/pdf/FacultyResearchInterests2013.pdf
- ↑ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/
- ↑ a b https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_10.html
- ↑ http://www.nejm.org/page/about-nejm/history-and-mission
