Comments on: There’s a pill for that!

By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:35:13 +0000

Thanks Dr. H for this.
cheers,
C.

By: Jose A Hernandez MD

Jose A Hernandez MD — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:37:51 +0000

I posted this comment on Facebook: “Carolyn Thomas, who publishes the blog “The Ethical Nag,” is one of the few individuals raising awareness of our addiction to illness which allow us to embrace the medicalization of our everyday life. Needless to say, the pharmaceutical companies take advantage of this addiction promoting this medicalization mania; and the public, with their money, willingly supports them.

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By: K.Rohmer

K.Rohmer — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:06:23 +0000

There’s a pill for everything isn’t there?

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By: Paige

Paige — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:58:14 +0000

Hi Carolyn,

“There’s a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they’re sick.”

Isn’t that the truth? And that explains everything. It’s why we are told by our doctors that we face a lifetime of drugs to treat what may or may not even be a medical issue! Ny own doctor is pressuring me to take statin drugs for borderline high cholesterol numbers but my own research into conflicting reports ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN makes me reluctant to even start = since many of the “so-called research” is funded by guess who? the drug manufacturers.

Thanks for sharing this valuable and thought provoking info with your readers.

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By: Pilar

Pilar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:21:38 +0000

Oh, even just reading this makes me feel a bit light-headed, cranky, and woozy. I sure hope my doctor can prescribe something expensive to fight off what I’m sure is a complex newly identified medical syndrome…. 🙂

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By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:21:21 +0000

You’re so right – there IS a pill for everything, and if there isn’t, well just wait and the drugmakers will invent one any minute now.

Brilliant work here – thank you for this!

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By: Zak

Zak — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:59:44 +0000

This is great – I’ve forwarded it to my pharmacist colleagues. Knowing them, they will then forward it to all their academic colleagues, who will then forward it to their pharmacy students, who will then forward it to their family physicians, who will then forward it to their drug reps, who will trash it before it gets around.

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