Medicalize Me: Experts Look At Perceptions Of Illness

... Do prescription drug ads make people think they're sick when they're not, or create "disease" out of thin air? Does the "empowered patient" movement mean that doctors have lost some of their professional clout when it comes to making diagnoses and prescribing treatment?These questions and more are the focus of a set of probing essays in a special section of the Feb. [click link for full article] ...