No matter what ails you, there’s a pill for it. And if nothing ails you, just wait. Pharmaceutical companies are working on drugs right now that just need a disease to treat. So let’s invent one! It’s what Big Pharma watchers call disease-mongering. For example, we used to call it laziness, but now we know that it’s really a medical condition called Motivational Deficiency Disorder. And don’t even get me started on Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder!
Need to take a pill for something, anything? We’ve got drugs for everything.
The term ‘disease-mongering’ was first coined by author Lynn Payer in the 1992 book Disease Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath and David Henry then wrote this in April of that same year in the British Medical Journal:
“Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to both prescribers and consumers.
“There’s a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they’re sick. Some forms of medicalising ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who sell and deliver treatments.
“The social construction of illness is being replaced by the corporate construction of disease.” Continue reading
This has bizarre backwoods good ol’ boy written all over it, no offense to good ol’ boys: two American nurses, 
The Nestle Corporation, world’s leading manufacturer of infant formula, aggressively markets its artificial formula in third world countries despite knowing that mothers lack clean water, money to purchase enough formula to sustain life, kitchen facilities to sterilize bottles and equipment, or even an ability to read basic product preparation instructions. Over 1.5 million babies die every year directly due to unsafe bottle feeding.
