Suddenly Sick

The hidden big business behind your doctor’s diagnosis (2005)

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The original archive has been memory-holed.

It harks back to a time of investigative journalism, before it got completely corrupted and squashed.

Whatever the problem there is a pill for it, even if you don’t actually have any “problem” actually requiring treatment. Its snake oil salesmanship we have become all too familiar with in the last couple of years.

Of course its still hugely successful, even today:

“More than 131 million people — 66 percent of all adults in the United States — use prescription drugs.”¹

And lifestyle or nutritional changes are a blasphemy. You know, something of zero or low cost that would actually address the root cause and make a permanent, positive contribution to your health. But no contribution to their bottom line.

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SPECIAL REPRINT OF A SERIES PUBLISHED JUNE 26 - 30, 2005

BY DUFF WILSON

Seattle Times staff reporter

1. https://hpi.georgetown.edu/rxdrugs/