But ghostwriting also helps the national malaise of people suffering from and treating diseases that didn't even exist before and ballooning government and private health plans costs.
It is said that women's periods are a lot like airline meals. We hate them, we complain about them, we dread them -- but just let the flight attendant try to skip you!
Before direct-to-consumer advertising, the health care system was devoted to preventing over-treatment and assuring patients they were probably okay. Now patients are assured they probably have a progressive disease.
Thanks to DTC advertising, people began taking seizure drugs like Topamax and Lyrica for everyday pain or headaches and antipsychotics -- hello? -- for everyday blues or mood problems.
But how many realize the antibiotic germ killers in such products are the same endocrine-disrupter pesticides producing frogs with no penises in polluted streams?
Nowhere in science is the "survivorship bias" as well demonstrated as the class reunion.Where are the people who failed economically, professionally, socially, romantically and physically? They don't show up!
