Comments on: Be Still, Your Heart http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/ America's favorite blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Mike Z http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7072 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7072 Even if you feel perfectly fine, you should still ask your doctor if Celebrioxadil is right for you. And don't take no for an answer. Even if you feel perfectly fine, you should still ask your doctor if Celebrioxadil is right for you. And don’t take no for an answer.

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7073 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7073 <a href="http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/BNS/BNS187/ACR080.jpg">"There's a bright golden haze on the meadows..."</a> And why shouldn't Vioxx be allowed to compete in the free market of American capitalism? OK, sure, it has an unfortunate "side effect" that they have known about for years and don't mention, even in the literature available to prescribing physicians, but what the hey?! For instance, I offer a fine medicinal that cures just about everything, "Dr. Jerry's Rattler-in-a-Box." Now, ocassionally, one of my customers gets what we call a "bite," and "dies." But should I be hurt financially by this perfectly predictable consequence of using my fine, natural product? I think <b>not</b>!! “There’s a bright golden haze on the meadows…”

And why shouldn’t Vioxx be allowed to compete in the free market of American capitalism? OK, sure, it has an unfortunate “side effect” that they have known about for years and don’t mention, even in the literature available to prescribing physicians, but what the hey?!

For instance, I offer a fine medicinal that cures just about everything, “Dr. Jerry’s Rattler-in-a-Box.” Now, ocassionally, one of my customers gets what we call a “bite,” and “dies.” But should I be hurt financially by this perfectly predictable consequence of using my fine, natural product? I think not!!

]]> by: Tiffany http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7074 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7074 I, too, have been nauseated by the FDA's interest in preserving bottom lines instead of the health of Americans. Unfortunately, as one of the millions of uninsured Americans, all I can do is sit back and "choose" between paying for intensely expensive drugs or I can simply pray for the generic versions that may or may not become available in a timely fashion. I agree with Jerry's "Rattler-in-a-box" comment.....heaven knows that companies shouldn't be required to come up with well-tested and "safe" medications when it's just so easy to rush a miracle drug to market. I, too, have been nauseated by the FDA’s interest in preserving bottom lines instead of the health of Americans. Unfortunately, as one of the millions of uninsured Americans, all I can do is sit back and “choose” between paying for intensely expensive drugs or I can simply pray for the generic versions that may or may not become available in a timely fashion.

I agree with Jerry’s “Rattler-in-a-box” comment…..heaven knows that companies shouldn’t be required to come up with well-tested and “safe” medications when it’s just so easy to rush a miracle drug to market.

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7075 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7075 So, have you noticed that the time spent in commercials for pointless drugs on TV that outline the adverse reactions and pre-existing conditions that should preclude the use of the advertised drug is usually longer than the the part that extolls the benefits of the drug? Don't be fooled. When they say, "People with liver, kidney, or heart problems, hypertension, cancerous or pre-cancerous diagnoses, water-retention," or any of the multitude of other conditions that are listed (oh, so, quickly, and in text that can't be read on most TVs) they mean, "Our product either exacerbates or can cause such conditions, and will fuck you over royally even if you <b>don't</b> have these pre-existing conditions." Oh, and, yeah, (Thanks, Mike Z) "Go demand your doctor give you this med, even if you don't know what it is for." Those commercials drive me nuts, the ones that don't even say what the med is for! So, have you noticed that the time spent in commercials for pointless drugs on TV that outline the adverse reactions and pre-existing conditions that should preclude the use of the advertised drug is usually longer than the the part that extolls the benefits of the drug?

Don’t be fooled. When they say, “People with liver, kidney, or heart problems, hypertension, cancerous or pre-cancerous diagnoses, water-retention,” or any of the multitude of other conditions that are listed (oh, so, quickly, and in text that can’t be read on most TVs) they mean, “Our product either exacerbates or can cause such conditions, and will fuck you over royally even if you don’t have these pre-existing conditions.”

Oh, and, yeah, (Thanks, Mike Z) “Go demand your doctor give you this med, even if you don’t know what it is for.” Those commercials drive me nuts, the ones that don’t even say what the med is for!

]]> by: Emmarie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7076 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7076 Since we're speaking of the FDA: does anybody know of an article or other respectable publication that gives a good overview of the drug approval process in general? I'm supposed to be writing a paper about the FDA and need that info to get started. Since we’re speaking of the FDA:

does anybody know of an article or other respectable publication that gives a good overview of the drug approval process in general? I’m supposed to be writing a paper about the FDA and need that info to get started.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7077 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7077 Speaking as an osteoarthritis sufferer (knees): I asked my doctor a couple of years ago if the COX-2 inhibitors were really any better than the generic I was taking, and he said they don't really do much better and they're a whole lot more expensive. We jointly decided to stick with what we're using. Of course, I have Kaiser Permanente, which a lot of people think isn't very good medicine; but right now the exchange looks pretty prescient. In any case the best thing you can do for arthritis is exercise like hell, but of course the drug companies don't get anything from THAT... Speaking as an osteoarthritis sufferer (knees): I asked my doctor a couple of years ago if the COX-2 inhibitors were really any better than the generic I was taking, and he said they don’t really do much better and they’re a whole lot more expensive. We jointly decided to stick with what we’re using. Of course, I have Kaiser Permanente, which a lot of people think isn’t very good medicine; but right now the exchange looks pretty prescient.

In any case the best thing you can do for arthritis is exercise like hell, but of course the drug companies don’t get anything from THAT…

]]> by: P.W. Fenton http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7078 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7078 Oh... how I agree with you on this one. The advertising of prescription drugs.. WHICH MUST BE PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN... must be outlawed. Physicians, the people who can prescribe drugs, represent a fraction of a percent of us... so why is TV pounding US every day with suggestions for what our doctors should be prescribing for us? It's criminal. Oh… how I agree with you on this one. The advertising of prescription drugs.. WHICH MUST BE PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN… must be outlawed. Physicians, the people who can prescribe drugs, represent a fraction of a percent of us… so why is TV pounding US every day with suggestions for what our doctors should be prescribing for us? It’s criminal.

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7079 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7079 C'mon, Adam. 17 out of 32. Haven't you learned how to recognize overwhelming support? In politics that's way more than a mandate! C’mon, Adam. 17 out of 32. Haven’t you learned how to recognize overwhelming support? In politics that’s way more than a mandate!

]]> by: chrisanthemama http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7080 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7080 In any rational universe, marijuana would be legal and Vioxx a controlled substance along with morphine and cocaine. In any rational universe, marijuana would be legal and Vioxx a controlled substance along with morphine and cocaine.

]]> by: Mary Kay http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7081 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/19/be-still-your-heart/#comment-7081 I thought the prescription drug ads were bad enough. But now the implant manufacturers are marketing total knee replacements to the general public, using the same nonsensical approach Adam describes. "Ask your doctor today if a total knee replacement is right for you." Oh, puhlease! What's next? "Feeling sluggush today? Ask your doctor if a pacemaker is right for you." I thought the prescription drug ads were bad enough. But now the implant manufacturers are marketing total knee replacements to the general public, using the same nonsensical approach Adam describes. “Ask your doctor today if a total knee replacement is right for you.” Oh, puhlease! What’s next? “Feeling sluggush today? Ask your doctor if a pacemaker is right for you.”

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