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By Jerome P. Kassirer. 251 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. $28. ISBN 0-19-517684-7.

The profession of medicine encompasses a wide variety of ways in which a physician can dedicate his or her life within the traditional areas of clinical practice, research, education, and administration. In this book, Jerome Kassirer, a former editor-in-chief of the Journal, documents, with well-referenced examples, how conflicts of interest, primarily financial in nature, have infiltrated all areas of the profession. The audience for the book is clearly the U.S. public, who, the author writes, "must become involved if we are to change the greed culture that permeates medicine."

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