` I don't know about you but I can hardly watch TV any more because I can't stand all the Drug Prescription Ads. I don't want to "ask my doctor" about some drug invented by some large Parma that needs to recoup its investment.
` The worst part of these commercials is all the "legal speak." Let me paraphrase - "Do not take these drugs if you're a living, breathing human being. Serious side effects such as heart attack, stroke, and death have been known to occur. If you experience one of these side effects please don't sue us. We only have your best interest at heart (that and we need to make the maximum amount of money) so 'Ask Your Doctor' if you have a newly coined term for one of our newly imagined diseases that our newly invented drug can cure. Your life (if you survive our drug's side effects) will be so much better."
` Americans are now so over-prescribed that all of those newly invented drugs are (from our treated sewage) showing up in our water supply. That's right, your tap water contains prescription drugs that apparently filters don't remove. Ask you doctor if you should be drinking the water. But don't worry - Big Brother Pharma will invent a new drug to counteract the side effects of tainted tap water.
`They'll probably call the new syndrome TWIT (Tainted Water Ingested Trauma) and the new drug to cure it CUP (Complete Unregulated Profit).
` The TV Ad campaign showing a young happy family laughing and splashing in a mountain stream near a waterfall while a voice tells you, "If you're one of those people that need water to survive you might be suffering from TWIT. Symptoms include: thirst and dry throat after hard work or exercise, headache, and feeling bad sometimes. Side effects include death, but not for everybody." Scene changes from close up on waterfall to water pouring from a home faucet and the young, happy mom giving her children glasses of water while her young, happy husband smiles knowingly. "Don't be afraid of your faucet. CUP is for your whole family" the voice continues. "Don't be a TWIT, Call Your Doctor today and have a CUP. " The scene fades while the happy couple hugs and shoos their happy children outside to play.
` Don't get me wrong, I'm not against taking a prescription drug if I need one. I get sinus infections from time to time and I go to my doctor for his advice. I don't ask him if I should take something I saw on TV. He's the professional, I trust his judgement, I let him tell me what I should take. He's much better informed than I am on the subject. I just happen to have a male doctor. Women doctors are just as imformed as male doctors.
` I think drug commercials should be banned from TV just like tobacco commercials were several years back. Ask your doctor what he thinks.
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