This book is comprised of a series of essays on healthcare politics, drug safety news, the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and healthcare. Funny, provocative, weird, or just entertaining, they bring a fresh perspective to a complicated area. Pimps refer to those who promote for personal profit drugs or devices, while whores are those in academia or elsewhere who allow their reputations and influence to be used for the same purpose. Chiggers are tiny insects in the forest of the Georgia, USA, where the author currently resides, that get under your skin, literally. These essays cover specific medications, vitamins, and supplements, with links to additional online articles about specific topics written by the author, as well as the role of drug companies and others in biasing information. This is the first in a series, with other books covering in more detail psychiatric medications and the battle over psychiatric diagnoses, as well as personal explorations of the author, healthcare politics, and the efforts at healthcare reform within the U.S., and finally the eruption of blogs, websites, and forums, including online interest in true crime.
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