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The hidden big business behind your doctor's diagnosis
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Jun 27, 2005 10:49am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Monday, June 27, 2005 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | You walk into your doctor's office for a physical exam and step on the scale. Last year, the doctor said you were overweight. Now he says you are obese — at the same weight.
A nurse takes your blood pressure. You have hypertension — with the same previously healthy reading you've had for years.
The doctor scans your wrist bone. You have a condition called "osteopenia" — with the same bone density that was fine last time you were measured.
You mention you are not enjoying sex as much as you used to. Diagnosis: a new kind of sexual dysfunction.
You leave the office with a head full of worry and a fistful of new prescriptions, joining more than 40 percent of Americans who take one or more prescribed drugs daily in the effort to stave off more serious trouble.
You are suddenly sick, simply because the definitions of disease have changed. And behind those changes, a Seattle Times examination has found, are the companies that make all those newly prescribed pills. |
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