BOOK REVIEW –
April 23, 2025 – The story of direct marketing to physicians — of drug reps offering doctors convenient free samples, fancy dinners and luxury trips — is never comfortable for a doctor to read. In “No More Tears,” child psychiatry comes under scrutiny … A product that was assumed to be benign turns out to be dangerous. A heavily marketed new drug has serious side effects. A medical device leaves a trail of complications. In all of these scenarios, the public is supposed to be protected by some combination of federal oversight, scientific and medical vigilance, and corporate responsibility. In “No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson,” investigative reporter Gardiner Harris shows how those protections can fail.
