Jeanne Lenzer is an award-winning medical investigative journalist and former Knight Science Journalism fellow. She is a longtime contributor to the The BMJ (formerly, the British Medical Journal), and her articles, reviews and commentary have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, The New Republic, Discover, Slate, Mother Jones and many other outlets.
"Blazing a new trail in medical research, Lenzer examines these
medical devices and the industry surrounding them...These
well-researched findings show how medical devices and implants may
do more harm than good."--Shelf Awareness
"Engrossing and terrifying...Lenzer takes readers deep into the
processes by which medical devices are approved by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). Thorough research is skillfully
interwoven with the story of Dennis Fegan, whose struggle to expose
the dangers of an implanted device that nearly killed him is both
gripping and emotionally affecting... Highly recommended."--Library
Journal (Starred Review)
"In this disturbing and riveting book, the indefatigable
investigative reporter Jeanne Lenzer tells the story of how
millions of Americans are implanted with medical devices with
almost no proof that they are safe. Lenzer exposes the web of
commercial incentives governing their use, and the refusal of the
manufacturers and the FDA to take responsibility when things go
wrong."--Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief, the NewEngland
Journal of Medicine, and author of The TruthAbout the Drug
Companies
"Jeanne Lenzer has pulled off a brilliant literary hat trick; a
page-turning tale of one patient's odyssey, combined with
hard-hitting investigative reporting and a compelling call to arms
to fix America's broken health care system. Before you get anything
implanted in your body, read this book."--Shannon Brownlee, author
of Overtreated
"Jeanne Lenzer's incisive investigation of one man's quest for
medical justice - and the regulatory failures behind it - is a
must-read for anyone wanting to understand the risks faced by all
of us during routine procedures. And it should be, for all of us, a
call to action."--DeborahBlum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
and author of The Poisoner'sHandbook
"Lenzer makes an excellent, often disturbing case for 'a new
national attitude toward healthcare.'"--Publishers Weekly (Starred
Review)
"Lenzer, a medical investigative journalist, powerfully details
some alarming reasons hospital CEOs, insurance executives, and
doctors become millionaires... Readers will be impressed with
Lenzer's profiles of doctors who decry unnecessary treatments and
tests, decline to take money for drug company sponsored talks,
advocate disentangling money and medicine, and promote 'doing as
little as possible to patients and as much as possible for
patients.'"--Booklist (Starred Review)
"Lenzer's gripping and carefully researched book addresses why
America needs a New Deal in health care. This book enlightens,
enrages, and will surely help advance that cause."--Bernard Lown,
cardiologist, Emeritus Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
"More than a decade ago, longtime BMJ contributor Lenzer abandoned
her career as an emergency room physician associate to become an
investigative medical journalist. Her debut book, an inspired
inquiry into the politics of the industry, is startling and
provocative . . . Reading like a cross between a riveting medical
thriller and 'a Kafka novel', the book is a powerful cautionary
tale . . . An impassioned exposé that uncovers a significant danger
within the contemporary health care industry."--Kirkus
"One of the best books in medicine I have read. A splendid, savage
story about the failings of modern device regulation that reads
like a mystery, not a work of medical non-fiction: It turns out to
be both."--Vinay Prasad, Assistant Professor ofMedicine, Oregon
Health and Science University, and author of Ending MedicalReversal
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