http://dagblog.com/link/how-drug-companies-sell-treatments-inventing-diseases-25327 Comments for "How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases" en http://dagblog.com/comment/253535#comment-253535 <a id="comment-253535"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/how-drug-companies-sell-treatments-inventing-diseases-25327">How drug companies sell treatments by inventing diseases</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yeah, bi polar disorder, everybody and his uncle has it now. When it was a rare diagnosis like a decade ago. I think of psychiatry as still in the medieval stage, barbarous experimenting on humans due to true understanding being in its infancy.  Just throw drugs in the patient, see which work. Then diagnose based on response!</p> <p>Not to mention the decades long war on cholesterol before medicine really understood much about it at all. (And mho: they still don't! I wish someone would recheck with all the docs that were enthusiastically saying that they were taking statins themselves when they first were introduced, as if they were the new fountain of youth, see if many have changed their minds now.)</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 09 Jun 2018 21:42:15 +0000 artappraiser comment 253535 at http://dagblog.com