Today is Wednesday, April 8, 2009 and I am preparing a breakfast of hearty plump sausages and tart apples. Besides the sausage and apples, I need one large chopped onion and a little brown sugar and water. I am going to cook the sausage in a frying pan and in a separate pan I will combine the apples, onion, water and sugar. Once my mixture is heated I will add the sausage to the pan and heat for a few additional minutes.
While I am waiting for my breakfast to warm, I am watching the weather channel to kill time. Instead of my local weather report I am treated to a commercial about erectile dysfunction. I mean it's about seven a.m. and I am just not in the mood to hear this.
Actually, I am never in the mood to have my time and appetite wasted by commercials for medications that I am not able to purchase should I feel the need. The long list of possible side effects is a complete turn-off at best and unbelievably frightening at worst.
Possible side effects for drugs prescribed for E.D. include headache, heartburn, diarrhea, flushing, nosebleeds, numbness, tingling, muscle aches, sudden hearing loss, sudden vision loss, chest pain, heart attack and the all time favorite sudden death. It seems that the best you can hope for is an erection that lasts for hours and hours, although you are advised to take yourself to the hospital should that occur. Personally, I think it may be your partner that needs medical attention more than you!
The point is simply this. These ads are a complete waste of money. Leave the prescribing up to the doctors and lower the cost of drugs. In order for these ads to be banned, Congress would have to act. It would be refreshing to see Congress enact legislation that would actually save taxpayers' money and not enrage them.
I'm sorry...POP... there is no way I can possibly eat this sausage now!
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If such commercials are banned, can I get the two bathtubs?
ReplyDeleteDear taxlarry,
ReplyDeleteThat's a reasonable request. I never understood why these two lovebirds were in separate tubs anyway.
Dear POP....
ReplyDeleteMy apologies for being M.I.A. these past few days. Prep for the seder has kept me pretty busy, as I am sure you can imagine... Anyway...I concur with your analysis of these advertisements for pharmaceuticals...But like they say, death, taxes and advertisements are inevitable. So, I posit the following: maybe the pharmaceutical companies could get together and produce an omnibus advertisement, touting the various wonder drugs they produce... use rainbows, cloudless skies, unicorns, happy, positive images; catchy jingle... and use the same disclosure and disclaimer statements, since all of the hideous side effects of these drugs appear to be frighteningly similar... no matter whether the drug is cialis, crestor, Yaz, or for that matter, that potato chip made with Olean... all of these products can change your life... take the cialis for 30 minute erection, take the crestor to maintain your cholestorol; take the Yaz to prevent pregnancy and PMDD, eat the chips and not gain weight.... and run the risk of side effects ranging from flatulence, to greasy diarrhea or maybe ... death...that could potentially lead to a huge cost savings..
Dear Janie,
ReplyDeleteMaybe the execs at the pharmaceutical companies should sample their own products and just go away and leave us alone. Bye the bye, greasy diarrhea sounds like a fate worse than death!