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True…
What the drug actually does? It makes $$$$ to the shair holders!
YES!!! SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!
Can we declare a moratorium on Pac-Man pie charts? Especially when “pie” is not the right chart for the info? They show the happy people walking around while they tell you how the drugs are going to ruin your life, so at the very least Venn seems appropriate.
No. Pie charts rule THEY RULE!
Pac Man rules, too. RULES!
Stop your bitching and make a better graph, then! I haven’t seen anything great from you yet!
Sorry, I was talking to n8.
Did you just apologize to yourself?
Stop your bitching and make a better comment, then! I haven’t seen anything great from you yet!
Sorry, I was talking to Onikun.
That was fantastic. I actually laughed out loud.
Wasn’t bitching, just found it humorous.
It’s the internet. Bitching is overrated.
Venn would have been wrong too. Just accept that graphs are sometimes a flawed medium, embrace the concept of the joke, and don’t get hung up on the execution
Amen to that!
At least it’s an original graph. The only pie charts that should be banned are those all-too-common murphy’s law ones, and the bar graphs of the same thing. I say BRAVO to this graph for being original and creative.
On occasion, one of the side effects is the problem that you’re trying to solve by taking the medicine….
Yeah, but having WORSE asthma isn’t going to kill you or anything…Oh wait.
Those warnings give me anxiety. I’m sure I’m going to die of a blood clot, stroke, or heart attack – not because of health reasons, but because of the drug ads.
MY CORONER: “Cause of death? Psycho-somatic illness from watching too many drug ads.”
“Those warnings give me anxiety.”
They have medications for that.
That come with more warnings. No pun intended.
yes but then you need the origional medicine to cure the side-effects of the second medicine, and so begins an endless cycle of buying drugs from which the pharmacists become very rich and you become very poor.
bloody capitalism
Especially those damn, epic long Celebrex commercials. God I hate those things.
omg, i completely agree. >_< i’ve gotten to the point where i hit “mute” or change the channel when one comes on. if i try to sit through it i become homicidal.
Hey! I started doing that too.
i agree! i’d never use that drug because of the minute long side effect warning on that damn commercial!
it’s well over a minute. i haven’t timed the commercial, but i’m fairly certain it’s at least two minutes long. bleh!
Except for Viagra ads, which show happy people walking around outdoors…with big cheesy grins on their faces.
Actually, that’s not Viagra…it’s *shudder* Enzyte.
-whistles-
they have big, cheesy grins because they’ve had an erection for 4 hours!
but if it lasts longer than 4 hours they must immediately call their doctor…
Um…I don’t really think it’s the Viagra that creates the “delayed back ache”…*snicker*
gawd. I can’t handle those commercials. I know all the side-effects, but I have NO clue what it does, so why would I ask my doctor anything?
a while back there was a drug commercial that had me COMPLETELY clueless. after watching it a few hundred times i finally looked it up online, and it was for herpes or something.
you never would have guess that from the advertisement. @_@
I would concur that the herpes treatments have the most non-informative commercials.
I would be interested in talking to the people in charge of the marketing for these drugs (does anyone remember this starting with commercials of guys dancing with women and playing football and ending with an announcer saying only, “Ask your doctor if Rogaine is right for you . . . ” and it was another two years or more before anyone besides 40-something men knew what Rogaine did?).
Why EVERY side effect and research result? Why skip over what it’s for? Why, if I’m supposed to ask my doctor if it’s right for me, do you bother telling me that if I have certain stomach conditions it might cause impotence? Can’t my doctor explain that? Do I need to hear all this? Can I get back to watching Friends?
Graph is annoyingly true.
Ha Ha – we don’t get those in the UK but I have seen them on trips to America. Adverts are annoying enough without all that crap!
We didn’t used to have them here either, but the false idol of deregulation allowed pharmaceutical companies to begin marketing directly to consumers. It’s why we pay more for medicine than any other developed nation.
Actually, they can’t market directly. That’s why they have to say “Ask your doctor if ___ex is right for you!”.
err… yes we do for cough syrups and stuff, no long list of side affects but all claiming to be the best non-presciption drug for whatever it is
The graph is so predictable … looking at the title you’d know what the contents shall be
That’s because it’s true. It’s satire; the point is not to provide information you don’t already know, but to prompt you to think about it in a different way.
well… its not even different …
Look at the previous Sarah Palin graph … thats different …
…When you look in the mirror does your silhouette appear flat and have ‘jaggies’ just like the in videogames?…Well then you should ask your doctor about ‘Adnauseam’…( scroll pictures of personality test from Alan J. Pakula’s Parallax View ) Ask your doctor if ‘Adnauseam’ is right for you…( scroll more banal pictures of hope and insanity ) Side-effects may include ( display list of all current nonfatal failings of human body plus a few extra for good measure
and in rare and currently unimportant legal cases taking ‘Adnauseam’ may result in death…Ask your HMO which is right for you…( cue ‘Danger Zone’ by Kenny Loggins )…rootkit…
…uh…I didn’t add that emoticon up there…uh…FAIL!!!…
Take Emoticon-AD for occasional overactive emoticon use. Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, and decrease in self-esteem. Do not take Emoticon-AD if you are driving or operating heavy machinery. In rare cases, FAIL has been observed.
…Aaaaiiiiieeeee!…
Very good
I believe there’s a FDA requirement that if they tell you what it does, then they also have to explain the adverse side effects. Since the marketing dept doesn’t think that talking about how this drug will make you throw up, destroy your liver and make your junk fall off presents a good image, they found a workaround for the law. Don’t say what it does (good or bad), just show happy people walking around and tell people to ask their doctor if their product is right for you. And when your doctor says that that drug isn’t right for you because it cures prostate cancer and girls don’t have prostates to get cancer in, tell him to write you a prescription anyway because hey, happy people take this stuff.
Thanks for saying what I was going to say so I didn’t have to take the effort and actually type it up.
I mean, hey, I’m annoyed by these commercials too, but it’s the LAW for them to tell consumers all the side-effects and stuff, otherwise people will get all self-righteous and sue the pants off of the drug companies when things start to go wrong. Sure, it’s annoying, but it’s what they have to do. And if they don’t show happy smiling people…what else are they supposed to show?
lol, this is so true, except you forgot
-tell your doctor if xxxx is right for you
This thread has been right for me. It gave me some good laughs. I needed that. One great thing about that is there are very few negative side effects of laughter.
well laughter is the best medicine, that’s why we’ve evolved to find people hurting themselves funny
If my laughter persists for more than four hours, should I consult a physician or comedian? Or an emo to bring me down?
…four hours…hmm…sounds like you need a stiffy…
I sell things for that..
But yours is iffy.
I’ll give PSC a call instead.
You forgot older men with younger wives wandering around molesting each other!
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You’re worth it. Don’t let your condition get the better of you. Talk to your doctor about adding NewDrug™ today!
Doesn’t anyone have Tivo? I haven’t watched a commercial willingly in four years.
Very false, it should be life altering side effects like loss of penis with a very slim bit
That would be a side effect, warning, or disclaimer.
Conversely, blue could be “$100/month drugs that are almost exactly the same as a drug that just went generic for $10, but you should TELL your doctor you need this expensive one”, yellow could be “$1000/month drugs that most insurances don’t cover, and we’re fishing for the patients with the right coverage”, and that tiny, tiny sliver of red is, “drugs that are actually unique, new, life-saving innovations that warrant an advertisement”.
Okay, that’s a mouthful, but as a pharmacy tech I can tell you that’s exactly what 99% of drug ads aimed at the general public are.
HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead!
Indeed…like the one on TV for skin conditions…that causes tuberculosis and deadly infections. In most cases I’d rather be sick then have the cure if I gotta go through all those side effects…
the odd thing is that they’re advertising enbrel (that’s the drug you’re talking about) as a drug for psoriasis… when in trials it’s proven to be much more effective against genetically pre-disposed conditions in which the body attacks itself (see spondylitis type diseases). it’s an immuno-suppressant which is why you face the life threatening infections and TB, but to get on the drug in the first place you go through about 6 months of intensive screening including eye exams, TB tests and various other tests to determine whether you’re in good health. the drug is an immuno-suppressant because it is a protein inhibitor… basically your body will create a ton of proteins that will cause problems but your immune system protects the proteins, recognizing them as something made within the body and therefore “good”. by turning off the immune system the drug can get rid of these proteins making you healthier but also more susceptible to illness and infection.
/insufferable-know-it-all.
I’ll take my psoriasis-free skin with a side of heart failure please.
They’ve left out the slice for “couples inexplicably sitting in separate bathtubs outdoors…”
OMG it’s true! That maykez it funnie.
Warning: Side effects may include Lung-quakes, DIS (Dissolving Intestinal Syndrome), Rectal Hallucinations, and Mild Heart-Explosions.
i saw an ad for some sleep medication
side effects may include RISK OF SUICIDE!
WTF?!