Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering

Greater ethics on the part of product managers and medical advisers might help stem the continual selling of disease where there isn't any. Consumers who want to be sick are likely to resist being educated on the potential problems to treating non-existence problems.

The Lysterine example in the article reminded me of another problem sold especially for women:

Douching linked to cervical cancer

Douching with Pinesol! Women were thought that was a good idea!

The mysterious lady parts have long been the suspected source of problems, eh?

I see this every day as a nurse. People come into the hospital with whole page lists of medications that they are on for this and that. They go to three or four different doctors and not one doctor has control of all their medications. None of the doctors knows what the other is giving because the patients don't tell them. Some of the patients get the same prescriptions from three different doctors. If the insurance companies don't catch it by refusing to pay for another prescription for that type of medication, they may overdose themselves. They come in with all kinds of illnesses and junk medications that they don't need. Half the stuff they take needs to be thrown away. They need to stop going to doctors and get off their butts and out for a walk. No one needs that much medicine.