John Abramson

About John Abramson

John Abramson, M.D., completed a two-year Robert Wood Johnson fellowship before practicing family medicine for 20 years in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, author of “Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine,” and serves as an expert consultant to plaintiffs’ attorneys in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry.

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Silenced Words: An Op-ed That Couldn’t Find a Home

By Jim Wright, John Abramson and Merrill Goozner• 21st Century Muckrakers• March 23, 2009

John Abramson, Jim Wright, and Merrill Goozner, author of “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs,” coauthored an op-ed about the JUPITER trial that was rejected by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The … Read more

Investigative Reporting on Medical Science: What Does It Take to Break Through the Commercial Spin?

By John Abramson• 21st Century Muckrakers• March 15, 2009

‘… it is almost impossible to get the story right when the fundamentally commercial goals for which the study has been done are covered up with so much industry-sponsored expertise.’ Read more

Medical Reporting In a Highly Commercialized Environment

By John Abramson• Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 2003

A family doctor prescribes eight guiding principles for accurate and fair coverage of research findings. Read more