I may be too jaded and cynical to teach this course

So I'm gearing up to teach two general-interest courses. One, in May, on the drug approval process and pharmaceutical industry. The other, possibly some time next year (but I'm at a workshop to develop it this week) on "medicine in america", or whatever the title morphs into by the time I actually teach it.

Have I mentioned that I don't actually trust doctors a whole heck of a lot? It may be an interesting course. As you might guess from the book list on the left, there's a certain large amount of jaded skepticism going into my course planning - and my copy of "Pushed" hasn't even arrived yet!