Selling Sickness: How drug companies are turning us all into patients

Ray Moynihan is one of the world's leading health writers, whose work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the British Medical Journal, and on ABC Radio.

Ray is a former Brisbane journalist who started out at community station 4ZZZ.

In his book Selling Sickness: How drug companies are turning us all into patients, Ray argues the modern world of medicine has convinced us we are a lot sicker than we really are. He says while it is true that many drugs are worth every cent in curing disease, he says pharmaceutical companies are marketing false illness to us with alarming success.

Listen to his interview with ABC Local Radio, Queensland in Windows Media format or Real Media format.

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