Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
Written by Kathleen Sharp
Narrated by Coleen Marlo
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While patients have no clue about the risks behind this poorly tested drug, Johnson Johnson sales rep Mark Duxbury knows precisely what is happening-the pharma behemoth is blatantly marketing overdoses of the drug. Duxbury tries to warn his superiors and is forced to testify in a secret court about illegal schemes. But his honesty costs him his career. Humiliated and ignored for years, Duxbury is ultimately betrayed in a shockingly cruel way. The psychological trauma drives him to attempt suicide, yet he fights on for several more years until the heartbreaking end. A Civil Action's Jan Schlichtmann has taken on the case, and is back in federal district court in Massachusetts.
And all the while, Johnson Johnson has continued to push sales of Procrit.
Blood Feud is award-winning journalist Kathleen Sharp's nail-biting expose of the Procrit case. Packed with corporate espionage, plot twists, and larger-than-life characters, it's as gripping as it is terrifyingly true.
Kathleen Sharp
Kathleen Sharp is a speaker, award-winning journalist, and bestselling author whose top books have been adapted for film. She is the author of Blood Medicine: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever; Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire; In Good Faith; Stalking the Beast: A History of Hollywood through the King Kong Movies; and several anthologies. She is a former correspondent for the Boston Globe and has written for several magazines, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Elle, and Parade. She has also appeared on Book TV, ABC News, C-SPAN, and The Armstrong Williams Show, among others, and on dozens of national radio shows and consulted on film documentaries for Turner Classic Movies, the Biography Channel, and Bravo. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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Reviews for Blood Feud
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is truly a sad story. Kathleen discusses the story of Johnson and Johnson's drug Procrit. The story is told from the perspective of a salesman from the Seattle area by the name of Mark Duxbury. He willing became part of illegal sales practices. He later was fired from J&J after stellar sales production presumably to get rid of someone who knew what J&J was up to. Unfortunately, the drug was sold off label and its approval was questionable based on its lack of safety data. Duxbury is a sad case who eventually died. He with the help of legal counsel became the whistleblower but much to his mental and physical detriment. The story is detailed and well written. Nicely done.