I've never seen the Levitra ads, but I do find the Viagra commercials with the devil's horns to be offensive. I suppose the ad exec thought it was cute, but I think its just plain bad taste.

 

I like the Viagra ones that have a bunch of men bursting out the front doors of their houses jumping for joy.

The announcer says:

"That's the feeling you get from talking to your doctor about Viagra."

Is that what they're REALLY saying you'll feel so good from??

The only time you feel that way from talking to your doctor is when he says that you're not terminal after all!

 

The only two phrases from a doctor that can make you smile are:

1). Its not cancer.
2). Its a girl/boy.

Even then, they manage to spoil everything with the bill.

(back to the healthcare controversy)

 

That kind of subliminal pitch advertising is all over the pharmaceutical industry. They convince people that their life will be better if they need to use a particular medication, rather than if they actually need it.

They market "the happy pill syndrome", Pills for everything.

They show smiley people in fields of sunlit flowers listening to Mozart on the breeze while they quote the usual. "This drug may cause headaches, stomach pain, diarrhea and vomiting."

Prozac For All

fltsfshr

 

A conversation with a child after watching a Viagra commercial:

C: Daddy, why is that man so happy?

D: His doctor gave him some special medicine.

C: Was he sick?

D: Not exactly

 

Hi Flts

Where have you been all day? You missed some fine controversies.

 

That's partly why I'm hesitant to go back to the doc regarding my cold. I don't want to automatically get medicated if it's not absolutely necessary. It seems the trend lately is prescribe antibiotic to make the patient feel like something is being done, no matter that by taking it they are long term reducing the effectiveness of those antibiotics in their body.

Problem is, it's a fine line, and over the last five years or so I have come to distrust doctors and medical organisations to an extreme.

 

Interestingly enough, I must get 30 or 40 e-mails a day about buying medicines from Canada. Some of those promoting Viagra and the like are very suggestive. Some of the subject lines are amazing.

There must be a ton of money in prescription medicine.

 

I was in Ensenada a few months ago and the streets are lined with pharmicies selling all kinds of prescription drugs over the counter. Many under-insured Vintagers go down there to buy their medications at much lower prices than here in the states.

Seems like when I was younger, going to Mexico to score drugs had a completely different meaning.

 

I've noticed that too.

Am I crazy, or was it just 10 years ago that they were refusing to prescribe antibiotics until they got a positive strep test?

Hmm, controversy ...

Maybe the drug companies are wining and dining the doctors in return for the doctors overprescribing antibiotics that are about to make it into the public domain? That way the bugs will become resistant to all the cheap medicine, and the drug companies can make us/our employers/the government pay through the nose for new antibiotics that still have a decade or two of patent protection.