Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe

Damn @praddenkeefe, this was one was devastating. Hippocrates said doctors harvest misfortunes of their own to rid the sick of their disease and suffering. The Sacklers inverted the formula, harvesting a fortune off patient’s misfortunes. A deeply-reported account of how the Sackler family fed the opioid epidemic, it can also be read as a story of how institutional medicine failed our country.