Have you ever read The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle?  If you have not, you should.  It is a wickedly comic novel written by the most entertaining of contemporary American writers.  This whole business with Dr. Whitcomb, and his Lake Tahoe clinic, and his false promises of a cure for Fibromyalgia is reminiscent of it.   The real-life Dr. John Harvey Kellogg is fictionalized into one of the main characters in Boyle's The Road to Wellville.  You might know Dr. Kellogg from the Corn Flakes you crunch occasionally for breakfast.  Yes, that most famous of breakfast cereals was actually invented … [Read more...]