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Malcharist

Fiction that captures reality: Malcharist

May 8, 2021 by David Healy Leave a Comment

Malcharist… warns, educates, inspires. Malcharist tells stories mirroring the ugliness and craziness of health care  Review by Gary Schwitzer I don’t read much fiction. Never have. As a journalist for 48 years, my mind and my eyes are focused on learning from history and reflecting on current events. But I’ve crossed paths with Paul John […]

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Malcharist: Fact or Fiction? Big Pharma, Psychiatry and Ghostwriters

September 16, 2020 by David Healy Leave a Comment

Malcharist, by Paul John Scott, is a fictional account of one of psychiatry’s most influential key opinion leaders (KOLs), his ghostwriter, and a journalist on the trail of a big scandal in the world of Big Pharma. The story didn’t happen in reality, but Scott has done his homework in such a way that one of medicine’s darkest secrets is exposed in all of its sordid detail.

For those of us familiar with industry-sponsored clinical trials such as GlaxoSmithKline’s studies 329 and 352, it doesn’t take much imagination to draw analogies to an all-too-common theme: a psychiatrist and a ghostwriter who helped create an illusion. He takes all the credit for her labors and she disappears into the background. What is presented to the medical community, however, is a story of pharmaceutical marketing masquerading as science.

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Malcharist Reviews: A truly spellbinding thriller

August 29, 2020 by David Healy Leave a Comment

Malcharist Reviews on Amazon. “Don’t Miss This Brilliant and Breathtaking First Novel by The Gifted Paul John Scott,”Dr. T. “The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction,” Kevin Miller. “Fascinating and fun. Worth the time and money,” Jeff

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A rollicking good read that gives Pharma a run for its money

August 22, 2020 by David Healy Leave a Comment

Malcharist Review by Annie Bevan Malcharist bounds like a hound as Lee Majors spies with his own eyes, his master is unaware he is up-the-creek, without a paddle. Griffin Wagner is fighting the devil’s work and suddenly his botched-up visions give him a break into a new world where right is wrong and wrong is […]

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This Novel Will Swallow You Whole

August 9, 2020 by David Healy 2 Comments

This is a novel that takes the reader deep inside the Pharmaceutical Empire which invents diseases, creates “patient advocacy organizations” to sell these diseases to the public, manufactures and controls the evidence base purporting to show their nostrums are safe and effective remedies for these diseases, relentlessly gaslights those unfortunate victims harmed by their patent medicines, and smears all who question any of this as “Luddites, anti-vaxxers, tin-foil hatters, and Scientologists.”

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Malcharist: A Novel

August 1, 2020 by David Healy 1 Comment

Buy: Malcharist

A novel by Paul John Scott

A closely-observed, panoramic thriller about medical science gone wrong, and the people who make dangerous pills seem safe.

It’s Manhattan in the winter of 2010, and Shivani Patel is carrying the secrets of a trade that no one understands: medical ghostwriting. A Cambridge-trained scientist and wordsmith for the world’s largest drugmaker, she makes her soaring pay by delivering the sleight-of-hand needed to move new drugs into journals and onto market. Then she watches as a parade of aging males take credit for her work…

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The Hemingway Effect – Malcharist

August 1, 2020 by David Healy Leave a Comment

This week, Samizdat announces our long-awaited release of Malcharist, an accessible and unusually realistic contemporary fiction work by Paul John Scott. The book is a page-turner about the corruption of clinical trials told through a medical ghostwriter’s crisis of conscience. Set in Manhattan in 2010 and laced with dark humor throughout its fast 352 pages, it […]

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