Much of the information director Sonia Barrett puts forth in her documentary The Business of Disease is common sense, though — as one interview subject notes — not necessarily common knowledge. The core of this exposé is that illness (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) is a multibillion-dollar industry whose various bigwigs — ranging from Big Pharma to the medical establishment — keep us all in a state of fear stoked by marketing. Barrett's solution, echoed by many of the doctors, former pharmaceutical insiders, and assorted therapists and researchers she interviews, is offered in the Thomas Edison quote that opens the film: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human ...
- 2/18/2015
- Village Voice
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