Doctor in the House : Disease Mongering

Disease mongering got rolling in 1879 with the invention of Listerine, which was originally considered a surgical antiseptic. Soon, however, its marketers began to consider it a cure for a disease they hadn't found yet. So they created one: halitosis.

Today, the term is all about trying to convince essentially well people that they are sick, or slightly sick people that they are very ill, exaggerating medical conditions or mining regular anxiety, to provide a new market for drugs. Dr. George Lee dives head in to this sticky issue and addresses it from a doctor's point of view.