Dr. John Abramson will be coming to UNH this Tuesday to do something he is all too familiar with. The clinical faculty member at Harvard Medical School is giving a lecture at the MUB Theatre I at 4:30 p.m., covering a topic that affects millions of Americans.
This free event is titled "How the Drug and Other Medical Industries Influence Doctors' Medical Decisions and Your Health," and it is part of the Public Health Grand Rounds Series that is being sponsored by the UNH Masters of Public Health and the N.H. Public Health Association.
Dr. Abramson's lecture is the third installment in a lecture series with the main goal to "provide timely information to the public health community and encourage networking among the public health community in New Hampshire," according to the UNH Health Management & Policy website.
In this particular lecture, Abramson will discuss how the U.S. health care system compares to health care in different industrialized nations. He will also talk about how the production and dissemination of medical knowledge has become largely privatized. Dr. Abramson plans to cover specific medical conditions such as cholesterol and heart disease prevention.
Other lectures include discussions on improving New Hampshire's health care system and decentralization in the European Union health system.
Dr. Abramson is widely known throughout the medical world as being an advocate for helping Americans better understand the needlessly complicated system of medicine and healthcare, however, this was not Dr. Abramson's primary mission early in his career.
His field of expertise is primary care, which is where he started his medical occupation in Appalachia with the National Health Care Service Corps. He then took over a family practice in Hamilton, Mass. and served as the town doctor for 20 years. Abramson is currently on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School and is teaching primary care. Dr. Abramson also served for seven years as the chairman of the department of family practice at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass.
Massachusetts' residents twice voted him "best doctor" in his specific area. His peers selected him three times as one of the best family practitioners in Massachusetts.
After numerous years of primary care contribution to Massachusetts towns, Dr. Abramson left the practice in 2002 to focus entirely on his research and writing of his book, "Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine."
The book's main focus is Dr. Abramson's own experience with medicine and how he feels it has changed and developed over his career as a professional. It also discusses how people should adapt to these changes and what the future will hold for health care in the United States.
Dr. Abramson's other publications include pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times about American health care. He has also made more than 60 appearances on national television, including two on "The Today Show."
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