Why is it that Hannah Kroeger was arrested for dispensing medicine without a license at her health food store in Boulder, Colorado back in the mid 70s but now it is okay for every other advertisement on TV to be about some new amazing cure that you need to be sure to find a source for. Yes, there are some possible side effects, said in a blissful tone by a caring voice, but no worry, once you contact your doctor and ask for the medicine you'll find out if its the right medicine for you. So, the doctors' phones ring off the wall, their waiting rooms are full, people are self-diagnosing and finding it easy to convince their doctor they have the symptoms -- after all the doctor is busier than ever because the advertising has filled up the waiting room so now there really isn't any time to find out what the patient's real problem is.
What ever happened to waiting until a person actually felt ill and contacted a doctor before the diagnosis is made and the, very possibly dangerous, drug prescribed. Why must people who just want to sit and watch a show be subjected to suggestive messages that could apply to just about anyone just to help the drug industry pay for the drugs they develop. We all know that the cost of health care is through the roof and that many people's lives are increasingly unmanageable because of abuse of prescription medicines. Millions of unnecessary prescriptions of handed out, filled, and paid for by insurance companies and Medicare every day. Why is it that we as a society support pushing people ever deeper into this insidious cycle of problems.
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