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& Benefits of Medications 
Rosemary Gibson is author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine. She received the highest honor from American Medical Writers Association for outstanding contributions to reporting on critical health issues in the public interest.
She served on the Defense Health Board Health Care Delivery Subcommittee. She was board chair at Altarum, board member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and served on the CLER Evaluation Committee to advance patient safety in teaching hospitals.
Her books – Wall of Silence, Treatment Trap, Battle Over Health Care, Medicare Meltdown – have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, JAMA, Health Affairs; referenced in proceedings of the U.S. Senate; mentioned in Congressional testimony; noted in WSJ, NYT, USA Today, Consumer Reports, and Boston Globe, O Magazine, Reader’s Digest, US News and World Report, & Modern Healthcare. Wall of Silence was translated into Japanese; the Chinese translation of Treatment Trap won the prestigious Open Book Award from China Times. Rosemary has appeared on Chicago Tonight, WBGH’s Greater Boston, The Doctors, C-Span Book TV.
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