Re: Doctor visit

Agree, but making money off medication and people's misery has been a tradition since way before the days of the medicine wagons and snake oil salesmen of the Nineteenth Century.
Cathy
On Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 02:32 AM, Marge Talt wrote:

Yes, and my DH, who now spends his life watching TV, is a real sucker
for those ads - for pain meds for arthritis.  He can hardly walk now
and instead of doing his exercises, he lives in hope of some magic
pill that's gonna make him 20 again.  I personally think pill ads
ought to be banned.   I am not in favor of the turning medicine into
big business - call me really, really old fashioned but making scads
of money from sick people is immoral.  Meds are so overpriced it's
pathetic.  My DH is on 4 prescriptions now that run well over $200 a
month...highway robbery.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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From: Zemuly@aol.com
In a message dated 7/21/2004 5:04:29 AM Central Standard Time,
mhobertm@excite.com writes:

they  tell people to ask their
doctor for these drugs but they never tell them  what the drugs are
supposed to treat!! DUH!

I've noticed that, too. Sometimes I think the ads should be on
"Saturday
Night Live" as spoofs. They are really ridiculous.

zem 

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