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[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Listening to drug advertisements is a pet peeve of mine. While showing people happy and joyful to be on the drug advertised, the list of nasty consequences of the drug of choice is given in the background. Modern medicine is a pretty brutal business where you open your risk to a set of pretty serious outcomes in order to treat the outcomes you're already dealing with. I realize we wouldn't do it if we weren't already sick and suffering, and that these drugs usually do provide more good than harm, but the harm side of that equation is so misrepresented by its placement in those advertisements, it gets under my skin.