Course Description:  

This course will discuss current issues in medical therapy with a focus on pharmaceuticals. Topics will include a critical review of at least one drug advertisement, analysis of at least one FDA-approved drug label to learn how to access the important information quickly, and a balanced discussion of the pros and cons of Covid vaccines and boosters.

Location:  Pavilion

Dates/Times:  Mondays Feb 24 to Mar 17, from 2:00pm - 3:15pm 

Instructor:  Dr. John Abramson

After his residency in Family Medicine, Dr. John Abramson completed a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship, studying epidemiology, statistics, and research design. He served in the National Health Service Corps as a primary care physician in rural West Virginia (1977-1979) and worked as a family physician in a small town about an hour north of Boston (1982-2002). Dr. Abramson was Chairman of Family Medicine at Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, from 1994-2002, and Lecturer in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School for more than 15 years. He also served as an expert in pharmaceutical litigation from 2004 to 2023. He is the author of Sickening:  How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It (2022, Mariner Books) and Overdosed America:  The Broken Promise of American Medicine (2004, HarperCollins).