{"id":181547,"date":"2016-05-24T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/24\/well-this-explains-a-lot-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:44:00","slug":"well-this-explains-a-lot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/24\/well-this-explains-a-lot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This Explains a Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that over the past 70 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/LoweringtheBar\/58048\">many medical conditions that were considered normal are not considered pathologies that require aggressive treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of money in this, which raises the obvious question, &#8220;cui bono?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As many as 16 million Americans are prone to screaming and pounding on the dashboard when someone cuts them off in traffic. Another 7 million are fully capable of devouring a whole box of cookies in front of the TV.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">There are 14 million men with low testosterone, 9 million women with low sexual desire &#8212; and tens of millions of people with bladders that are too active and blood sugar that&#8217;s a little too high.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The common thread: All have non-life-threatening conditions that for most of the 20th century were not considered a part of mainstream medicine. Some did not exist at all as formal disorders.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Each of the conditions, from intermittent explosive disorder to overactive bladder disorder, is the product of a new or expanded definition. These definitions come from medical societies or researchers who get money from drug companies.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to worry though, I&#8217;m sure that the invisible hand of the market, and the &#8220;skin in the game&#8221; required by Obamacare, will fix all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that over the past 70 years, many medical conditions that were considered normal are not considered pathologies that require aggressive treatment. There is a lot of money in this, which raises the obvious question, &#8220;cui bono?&#8221; As many as 16 million Americans are prone to screaming and pounding on the dashboard when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1074,1018,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-medical","category-pharma","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}