ALL I WATCH ON TV these days is news, but I’m forced to have to stomach the constant commercials. Making a kitchen run, or using the time for a bathroom break, sometimes helps. But it’s impossible not to notice the constant onslaught of ads for medications. It’s everything from erectile dysfunction to memory pills, and every other malady from which humans suffer. The medicalization of our daily experience has expanded substantially, and the current brouhaha over vaccines hasn’t helped. Big Pharma has plenty of money to fund assaulting us with promotions of one drug after another. Do they expect us to then go to our doctors and announce our desire to try these supposed panaceas? [But did you notice all the potential side effects?] Perhaps the next step in the process will be getting states to enact legislation allowing people to write their own prescriptions. After all, if Texas can permit unlicensed and untrained individuals to get guns with which to shoot people, why not let ‘em be their own doctor too? What could go wrong?

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