John Abramson has worked as a family doctor in Appalachia with the National Health Service Corps and for 20 years in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He was a Robert Wood Johnson fellow and is currently on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, where he teaches primary care. He served for 7 years as chairman of the department of family practice at Lahey Clinic. He was twice voted "best doctor" in his area by readers of the local newspapers and three times selected as one among several of the best family practitioners in Massachusetts .

   John is the author of the Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine, published by HarperCollins in September, 2004. He has been published in the New York and LA Times has made more than 65 appearances on national television, including two appearances on The Today Show. Two of his academic publications have been provided as handouts: A recent article in the Lancet titled "Are Lipid-Lowering Guidelines Evidence Based?" and an article in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice: "Can We Trust the Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine?" Dr. Abramson serves as a plaintiff's expert in litigation involving several drug companies.