We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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I've been waiting to have this conversation with our guest today for a while,

ever since I got a copy of his fascinating new book, Sickening,

How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It.

We have John Abramson with us today. He's a lecturer in healthcare policy at Harvard University.

He is also out with this book, which will be available on February 8th.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me, Emily. It's pleasure.

Of course. Now, I think it's since it's your first time on the show.

If you could tell us a little bit about your background and how you got to where you are right now,

that would be fantastic.

Okay. So I'm a family. I was, I am a family doctor.

I practiced family medicine for about 20 years.

In the middle of my training, I was in the public health service.

And the National Health Service Corps as a primary care doc and rural West Virginia.

Excuse me. I went back and finished my residency.

And after my residency, did a Robert Wood Johnson fellowship for two years,

studying research design epidemiology and statistics.

And was thought I was headed for a career in academic medicine teaching family medicine.

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