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Old 11-06-2012, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Baltimore, MD / NY
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I'm guessing they also vamped up these commercials around the same time hospitals started to restrict pharmaceutical reps from pushing their drugs on site. Unreal.
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Old 11-06-2012, 06:24 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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I hate medicine ads, too, and I hate insurance ads even more. Especially this time of year when the air waves are full of Medicare supplemental insurance.
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Old 11-06-2012, 06:25 PM
 
Location: California
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I hate medicine ads, too, and I hate insurance ads even more. Especially this time of year when the air waves are full of Medicare supplemental insurance.
Yeah those are annoying but I consider it part of the whole "informed public" thing. They aren't pushing drugs anyway.
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Old 11-06-2012, 07:03 PM
 
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While we're on the subject, are there no boundaries for Viagra & Cialis commercials? Can't watch a sporting event without being peppered by them. Wanna watch a NASCAR race, football game, or World Series game with your grade-school aged kid? Be prepared to answer the question "Dad, what's reptile dysfunction?"

The answer, of course, is "when your lizard doesn't work right."
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Old 11-06-2012, 07:08 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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They really grind my gears.

I've watched some TV lately, after, I dunno years of not watching it. It's changed a bit. What's up with like every 5th? commercial being some new wonder drug, that has like 5000 horrible things associated with it? Like, I saw one today, and it helps asthma, except for the part where it could cause your horrible death.

It's $$$$$, nothing else.

My favorite is some new genius drug that gives you nice long eyelashes, the downside is it may discolor the whites of your eyes. At least you'll have those sexy lashes to draw attention to the discoloration.
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Old 11-06-2012, 07:18 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Yeah those are annoying but I consider it part of the whole "informed public" thing. They aren't pushing drugs anyway.
They're not?

Do you really believe the purpose of the ads is anything but getting people to ask their doctor for specific meds, needed or not?
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Old 11-06-2012, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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Yeah those are annoying but I consider it part of the whole "informed public" thing. They aren't pushing drugs anyway.
No, but they're scaring old people into thinking they need insurance on top of insurance. And of course the actors in the hideous ads are always giggling, dancing old people with fake grins on their faces.

If you'll notice, every single one of them says, "you may this..." and "you may that..." and "it may cover you..." blah blah blah. MAY/MIGHT isn't good enough for me. If I'm gonna pay for something, I expect it to do what it's supposed to do, no MAYs about it.
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Old 01-13-2015, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Fleet Glycerin Suppositories Adult (glycerin rectal) medical facts from Drugs.com

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Wash your hands before and after using a rectal enema or suppository.


OMG WHAT .. people can not be this stupid.
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Old 01-13-2015, 06:15 PM
 
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Fleet Glycerin Suppositories Adult (glycerin rectal) medical facts from Drugs.com

Do not take a rectal suppository by mouth. It is for use only in your rectum.
Wash your hands before and after using a rectal enema or suppository.


OMG WHAT .. people can not be this stupid.
Yes, yes they can. Talk to a nurse sometime. Years ago there was a nurse in my office who had the best stories. A woman who was surprised when she got pregnant as she was on the pill. The nurse asked how she was taking the pill and I will just say that it wasn't orally. Then there was the guy who went to the ER to remove a thermometer from his penis.
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Old 01-13-2015, 06:51 PM
 
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I love them,

Ask your doctor about Snakeoilcedrineâ„¢ it can make you feel great...or...warning using Snaakeoilcedrine can cause impotence, kidney failure, baldness, tooth loss, body odor, and DEATH!
yep, the doctors get richer because they prescribe the medications, and the pharmaceutical companies get richer selling the meds, and then the lawyers get richer by suing the pharmaceutical companies and doctors that prescribed the medications.
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