2. A deeper problem is at issue: the seemingly irresistible tendency in modern society to medicalize everything. All facets of the human condition are now routinely translated into disease-language -- we have trade in original sin for original sickness; and we are encouraged to believes, in our therapeutic society, there is a pill for every ill. So long as we promote disease-mongering attitudes, we cannot expect that people will not play the system -- and it can be no accident that a third of all "pretenders" are themselves health-care professionals.