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Summary: Strong Hailey
Review: "Strong Medicine" may be the best Hailey novel of all. The characterizations are believable throughout. This applies to all of the Jordans, plus Vincent Lord, Noah Townsend, Gideon Mace, Senator Donahue, and many others. A vast improvement over earlier works such as "Wheels" and "The Moneychangers".
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Summary: Arthur Hailey at his best!
Review: A woman can scale the same heights as a man when it comes to a profession seems to be the theme of this novel set in the world of large Pharmaceutical companies. We see drugs in stores, buy, use and then throw them away but what really happens before they come before our eyes? Research goes on for many years, followed by testing to ensure that the drug is safe, then there is the application to FDA after whose approval the drug is released for sale. All along the way there are delays which have to be overcome. There is cut throat competition between firms and within firms for the top position. Though Hailey has included family life of the heroine Celia Jordan in his novel, the main site of action is the corporate world. Not leaving out politics, he includes a senator out for avenging his humiliation, a FDA officer with a shady past, a British researcher who promises a wonder drug - but is the promise fulfilled? And a bitter scientist set to find a miracle drug that will counter the side affects of hordes of other drugs. But will the Thalidomide tragedy be repeating by Felding-Roth Pharmaceuticals? Is infamy in store for Celia? Or will she stand tall and proud on the ladder of success?
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Summary: 10 years old and still going strong
Review: Arthur Hailey is one author whose judgement I'd trust implicitly. He "captured" my trust when I was 13 years old when I first read "Final Diagnosis". "Strong medicine" is another great story in the same great Hailey tradition - attention to detail, an investigative journalism kind of style and best of all, real, believable characters.Arthur Hailey is one of the best, Strong medicine is one of his best books and Celia Jordan, a remarkable character. Mr. Hailey, more power to you. Hope to read lots more from you in the years to come. Thank you for creating Celia Jordan (Strong Medicine), Dr.Pearson (Final Diagnosis), Margot and Alex (Money Changers), Jamie Howden (In High places). Looking forward to more from you,
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Summary: 10 years old and still going strong
Review: Arthur Hailey is one author whose judgement I'd trust implicitly. He "captured" my trust when I was 13 years old when I first read "Final Diagnosis". "Strong medicine" is another great story in the same great Hailey tradition - attention to detail, an investigative journalism kind of style and best of all, real, believable characters. Arthur Hailey is one of the best, Strong medicine is one of his best books and Celia Jordan, a remarkable character. Mr. Hailey, more power to you. Hope to read lots more from you in the years to come. Thank you for creating Celia Jordan (Strong Medicine), Dr.Pearson (Final Diagnosis), Margot and Alex (Money Changers), Jamie Howden (In High places). Looking forward to more from you,
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Summary: A Look at the Right and Wrong of Drug Companies
Review: Arthur Hailey was a great man. He provided insights into so many industries. Perhaps he got the best commercial works out of Airport and Hotel, but his commentary on other works was his greatest legacy.
Don't get me wrong - Hotel and Airport were great works. The looked into the problems of those industries. He books contained great merit; the adaptations to screen showed a big disater movie (Airport... and then Airplane).
Strong Medicine was his look into the ethical drug world, with all it's triumphs and problems. Medical breaktrhoughs in drugs are not without their costs. Can some drugs lead to harmful side-effects? Yes. Can some drugs be helpful to men and science? Yes. Can the FDA both cause good drugs to be delayed, and catch harmful drugs before they hit? Yes.
Arthur Hailey is a master of industry reseach. He understood no industry was without it's drawbacks and costs, and well as it's advancement to mankind. Strong Medicine shows both sides at their very best. Drug companies want the best ethical drugs they can make - but they are also not immune from making mistakes about their strong medicne.
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Summary: Accessible even though you're not into medecine
Review: I read it a while ago, and it captured me right from the first page. Arthur Hailey has a way of describing things very vividly, and even though I don't know anything about medecine or the technical language it doesn't matter because you still understand it and it's easy to feel and see all the characters in your mind. I recommend it for the reader who wants to be entertained and nothing else, it's not a book which raise highly philosophical questions (maybe makes you think a little about what's really going on inside the pharmaceutical industry) and likes to read a good well-written book.
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Summary: An excellent book from one of the best authors of the world
Review: If there is one thing I like when I read a book by Athur Hailey, is that he's able to write about the world of medicine so greatly as the detective world or any other kind of story, mixing the writing of authors like Robin Cook, Mary Higgins Clark and Sidney Sheldon in a very good way: his own. So why didn't you rate this book 5 stars instead of 4? The answer is: Mr. Hailey's books are wonderful, but he wrote one or two dull lines. So... As for the case of STRONG MEDICINE, the author wrote a book that has a wonderful character and he develops them with an hability that I don't usually see. He gives an insight on the remedy world and makes you understand it completely well, what makes you be aware of how careful he was as for researching. In a few words, Arthur Hailey is one of the best authors out there, one of those that sometimes you hate for not writing as much as you want to read, which to me usually means a ton of his books. And Arthur have written only just a few, unfortunately. So, what you can do, is read read and read his books and also enjoy him. You'll discover one of the best writers you've ever read. Believe me.
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Summary: Strong Medicine: A Memorable Piece of Liturature
Review: Strong Medicine was a excellent piece of literature, not only did it have great characters, it was factually interesting, you have trouble putting it down! This was my first Arthur Hailey novel, and it will most certainly not be my last!
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Summary: Role Model Heroine
Review: This book changed my life. When I was 16, a friend called me on the phone in sheer excitement. "I just read a book about a woman who reminds me of you! " Needless to say, I rushed out to buy the book, stormed through its captivating pages, and was puzzled. The heroine is a modern career woman with principles and intelligence. I was a teenager. Why was she like me? Yet, over the years, I have found that the heroine has given me courage and guidance in times of challenges and has even led me to propose to my husband! Though not a recently written book, the heroine is a wonderful, encouraging, and inspiring role model for the women of today who want it all - a career, family, and self-realization. It is absolutely captivating and one that you will go back to read a second time and a third if not more.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This book is Excellent for reading anywhere and anytime, reading this book you will learn (more or less) how think a pharmaceutical company to improve or create new medicine, you will also see how react the people that doesn't like this kind of companies that sincerely we all need them and they have to work with animals whether we like it or not.
We also see how doctors work, some for the cure of the people and some for the cure of their own bank account.
The life of Celia and Andrew was terrific, I want to live that way with my wife and I am not talking about the money, I am talking about the way that each one support the other one. Here is the only part that doesn't belong to the story, the affair of Celia, I don't know why it was written, is mentioned only once and is written in 15 or 20 lines, again, that part of the book doesn't belong to the story.
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