Thomas Stossel

Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Senior physician in the Hematology Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Director of its Center for Medical Innovation; visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation; Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School

Thomas Stossel on KCRW

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