Beyond the slow motion (which I think is meant to give imagery of relaxation, dreamy, happy lives that are not hectic or realistic…I mean, who has that free time to move that slow?) ...I want to point out the question that bothers me more:
Why are we the only country in the world that inundates TV viewers with advertising for drugs? When I see commercials or adverts for relatively rare conditions (I’ve seen a number of 3 page ads in People magazine for Linzess, a medication for IBS-C, relatively rare)...and TV ads for Psoriasis and anticoagulants, Hepatitis C…I just think: WHY?
Why isn’t this something that your doctor and/or pharmacist should determine? Why are you advertising to the general population who should NOT be looking for a name brand new medication necessarily. Gah.
And, as the daughter of a doctor can I just say that Pharmaceutical companies are so icky sometimes. They hire fresh-out-of-college BEAUTIFUL girls to go visit clinic docs or hospital practitioners to push some new (not yet available in generic form, hence expensive) medication. They give away goodies (freebie medications, freebie pens, hats, notepads and more)...sometimes they even help sponsor “medical conferences” in Hawaii. This is just not okay! When you’re unable to buy life-sustaining medications because of the exorbitant prices think hard about how much that drug company spent on marketing when instead they could have made it more affordable for the patients that actually need it.
Lastly, what galls me the most is that we have all these research and advertising dollars focused on giving old men erections rather than curing juvenile diabetes or better prevention and treatment for Lyme disease..Or how about some new innovative cancer cures!
It’s all because there are lots of old men (hello Baby Boomers) with money.
Gah. Makes me crazy. It’s morally WRONG. Big Pharma should spend that money helping the world cure malaria in Africa. Spend money finding medications to eradicating Guinea-worm disease…not advertising during prime time when ads cost huge sums of money.