A pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of an illness and aggressively promoting public awareness of it in order to expand the market for its treatment.
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ICD-10 ChapterXVIII: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified 1 First Described Sources
1. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter XVIIIQuote, List of chapters, Chapter XVIII
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
2. Disease mongering (Wikipedia)
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