I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I really like the commercials which hype new medications. What bothers me the most is the long list of things that could go wrong if you did talk your doctor into prescribing the stuff for you.
The other night one of those commercials came on and basically I tuned them out, but my wife became a bit excited. She said it sounded like a medication the oncologist gave her during her chemotherapy treatments. It was supposed to make your white blood cell count higher to counteract the effect of the chemotherapy. One of the main reactions to the drug was that it could make your bones ache.
“Yes, my bones did ache,” she exclaimed, and the doctor had to prescribe another medication to relieve that condition.
Now what I want to know is what good was it to hear about the medication in a television commercial three months after the patient needed to take it? Isn’t this why doctors are paid to keep up with the latest developments in medications? It seems to me they are doing their jobs quite well without watching the commercials.
Sorry, Arnold Palmer, but I wish you made extra money being in liquor commercials for liquor selling the ingredients for the cocktail named after you. Let doctors make the decisions about which drugs to prescribe us.