Sunday, April 09, 2006

Medicines in the US

The funniest things on TV are not sitcoms. They are ads for medicines.

X sleep medicine is the best. It gives you 8 hours of peaceful sleep. You feel better in the morning. Etc etc etc. Then come the disclaimers: X may cause headaches, nose-bleeds, nausea, you may never wake up, pregnant women may give birth to 3 headed children. Still they convince you its the best thing in the world.

Y is the best for middle-aged men with ED. It is effective for 36 hours. So that you can be ready when ever your partner is. Blah blah blah. Disclaimers: Y may cause heart attacks, if you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours call a doctor (I wonder why they advertise that it works for 36 hours if a 4 hour erection is bad), it may cause liver problems. But its the best thing for those with ED.

Its sick how these pharmaceutical companies hit the people in their weakspot by selling them potentially harmfull medicines and they absolve themselves of any blame by adding the disclaimers. If the medicines are in fact that harmful, why sell them at all?

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