April 21, 2006
For Every Condition, a Diagnosis and a Drug to Treat It
David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle, in Australia
In the British Medical Journal this month, Ray Moynihan, a colleague of Dr. Henry's, reported that doctors had named a new condition, motivational deficiency disorder, and had tested a drug to treat it. He quoted a skeptical Dr. Henry as saying, "Common laziness is not a disease." The article came out on April 1, the lead scientist of the drug trial was
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