by Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels
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Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could "sell to everyone." Gadsden's dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. Drug companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that define illness, and the markets for medication grow ever larger. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. When it comes to conditions like high cholesterol or low bone density, being "at risk" is sold as a disease. Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt health-care systems all over the world. As more and more of ordinary life becomes medicalized, the industry moves ever closer to Gadsden's dream: "selling to everyone."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 the pharmascams accelerate, 2008-10-03
Books like this could save your life and the lives of your loved ones, and can certainly help to avoid much unnecessary pain and damage. There's valuable information here, from an excellent investigative journalist.
Everyone should know about this book, as well as similarly worthwhile books like The Truth about the Drug Companies, Dirty Medicine, Racketeering In Medicine, The Great Cholesterol Con, Heart Frauds, How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (amusingly written, by a medical doctor, as well as scandalous), The Medical Mafia (also by a medic, similar theme as Confessions and passionately but badly written), Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, The Cancer Industry, Cancer is Not a Disease, Why We will Never Win the War on AIDS and the many books against vaccination, the biggest scam that is maiming and killing the coming generations.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel Exposed, 2008-08-25
Selling Sickness is a striking and bare-knuckled expose' about how the multibillion dollar Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (PDC) exercises arbitrary and Fifth Column influence over the FDA, the NIMH and premiere medical and psychiatric journals and organizations, while shaping the perceptions of the lemming masses.
Promoters and agents of the multibillion dollar advertising industry hold the rank of Joseph Goebbels in the PDC, using funding for fifth column advertising, research projects and "education" grants to control journals, public agencies and artificial "grassroots" movements, (i.e. "Astroturf.")
While this phenomena demonstrates that corporate and stockholder interests are not always in the best public interest, it also begs a larger question:
Can the masses be drugged (as opposed to crushed by military force) into surrendering independent liberty to the Brave New World of a Marxist/Von Mises hybrid similar to that of China?
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
WAKE UP AMERICA!, 2008-06-25
HEALTHY, WELL PEOPLE DO NOT MAKE DOCTORS RICH. THEY DO NOT MAKE DRUG COMPANY "CEO'S" OR "INVESTORS"
RICH EITHER.
GOING TO SEE A DIETITIAN EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT "OUT OF POCKET" WOULD BE MONEY WELL SPENT. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOUR DOCTOR "PRESCRIBED" A DIET?? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE EVEN TALKED ABOUT DIET?? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE EXAMINED YOU??
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GAVE ANY THOUGHT TO WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR MOUTH?? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT LIGHT TO MODERATE EXERCISE??
LASTLY, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU FELT REALLY GOOD?? GET THE BOOK AND READ IT. GET MORE BOOKS LIKE IT AND READ THEM. YOU MIGHT BE A BETTER "DOCTOR" THAN THE ONE YOU ARE SEEING NOW...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Must read before popping another pill., 2008-04-09
A must-read for everyone who is on prescription medications or has a loved one on meds. Especially, if you think the FDA protects consumers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A must read, 2008-01-23
This is an excellent and well written book. If you want to be informed, I suggest you read it. I won't bother restating what others have said. I also notice that physicians here rating the book don't like it as much. I wonder why?
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