Summary: Where do the medicines and drugs we're prescribed come from? Find out why this week's Book Club book of the week - Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre - made our reading group angry ... The follow-up to Ben Goldacre’s phenomenally successful Bad Science, Bad Pharma is his expose of the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry, and the tricks of the trade used to distort drug trials and push through inadequate medicines and procedures, cheating both the medical profession, and the public. Reading this book will make you furious, as it shows how the drug trade and governments often put profit before patient welfare, with sometimes fatal and heart-breaking results. Nonetheless, it is utterly compulsive reading – you’ll never feel the same way about your medicine cabinet again... The Book Club Podcast We think our Book Club selection are books not only worth reading, but worth talking about. Each week, we're bringing together a group of Waterstones Cardholders and our own booksellers to talk about our Book Club book of the week. You can download the discussion as a podcast via iTunes. You can find out more about Bad Pharma and Ben at his website, and also follow him on Twitter. You can buy Bad Pharma at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/1eDynUS), online at Waterstones.com (http://bit.ly/18aqMsg) or in ePub (http://bit.ly/1eDycZF)
