Big Pharma Has Made Americans Into Wimps

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Americans are wimpy hypochondriacs, says Julie Gray at Huffington Post:

…The way illness is treated in the United States is ghastly, ranging from costly, inadequate insurance to cheap, over the counter medicines for everything under the sun. It has turned us into a nation of willfully ignorant drug and convenience addicted wimps, buying treatments for symptoms that we don’t like and medications for illnesses we don’t have, padding the pockets of big pharma along the way.

We have become a nation for whom illness is anathema. We are terrified of diseases we probably won’t get; the Ebola scare is sweeping the nation. It was SARS before that. And the H1N1 flu epidemic before that — and so on. Our sense of proportionality, of the actual impact of illness, is way out of whack.

From where I live now, I am thankful that I cannot reach for a spray or lozenge that will make it go away. No — I’m kidding — I’d kill for that. But in the absence of that easy fix, I have a new perspective and appreciation for my body and its frailty. But I am also struck by how easily — a headache, a stomach ache — we have been lulled by corporations very glad to sell us a cherry-flavored syrup that we don’t really need by telling us that to do otherwise is backward.

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