Bitter Pills by Stephen Fried, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

We all take doctor-prescribed medication religiously, believing that the people who prescribe and manufacture the drug are doing their jobs properly. This isn’t always the case as leading journalist Stephen Fried proves in Bitter Pills. His wife had an adverse reaction to an antibiotic meant to cure a minor infection and ended up in the emergency room with side effects that didn’t subside. Adverse drug reactions are the fourth leading cause of death the U. S. according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. | Bitter Pills by Stephen Fried, Paperback | Indigo Chapters