In the kitchen, we have a small television on top of the fridge. The other day I was in there when a pharmaceutical commercial aired. I didn't hear the whole thing and don't know what drug was being advertised.But at the end, when the mandatory side-effects were being disclosed, this certainly caught my attention:
"May cause death."
I thought to myself, "With a side-effect like that, why even bother?"
And have you noticed they no longer say, "Ask your doctor." Instead you hear, "Get it from your provider."
Have many physicians been reduced to the mere role of drug dispenser? And are hospitals and clinics simply storefronts?
What do you think?
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I think that sounds rather obscene, at best... Any idea as to which ad-drug that was? What have I been missing on the TV?
It is very interesting, to say the least.
But I guess by now, the drug companies feel they can get away with just about anything.
As a side note, my grandmother was on eleven different prescriptions at one time. (Yes, eleven!) The blame was placed on her doctor, who was fired and replaced with a physician who got her down to a handful.
My grandmother said that those years on all those meds were like a blur, that she could not remember anything during that time period.
She ended up dying in a hospital, surrounded by the best that modern medicine has to offer.