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Marcia Angell

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Marcia Angell, M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist. She joined the editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1979, became Executive Editor in 1988, and Editor-in-Chief in 1999.

Dr. Angell writes frequently in professional journals and the popular media on a wide range of topics, particularly medical ethics, health policy, the nature of medical evidence, the interface of medicine and the law, care at the end of life, and the relations...more

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Books by Marcia Angell

Average rating: 3.74 · 236 ratings · 48 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It 3.74 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Farma&Co: Industria farmaceutica: storie straordinarie di ordinaria corruzione 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy? by John Greyman, John Geyman, Marcia Angell (Foreword) 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	Basic Pathology by Stanley L. Robbins, Marcia Angell, Vlinay Kumar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Basic Pathology by Stanley L Robbins, Marcia Angell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976	My rating:

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“Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.”
― Marcia Angell

tags: chronic-pain , mercy , wisdom

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