Seeing as my old profile was actualy a real profile and i had it for over a month, it's time for . . . . . . . . .NEW PERSONA!!!!!!! 
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I've been feeling this way for a while, but the issue seems ever more prominant now with the recent problems with Vioxx, Celebrex, and Naproxen (Aleve et al). Advertisements for prescription drugs are all over TV and in Magazines, and on the radio and at bus stops, and pretty much everywhere. Something just seems wrong advertising that to the general public. Why should people with zero medical or biochemichal or pharmasutical, etc. training be making descisions on how to ease their ailments or combat their disease? And it's not like doctors can really veto a patient's descision; if one doctor won't give a patient what he/she wants, there's another right around the corner who will do so.
These prescription comercials aren't informative. They serve no medical or helpful purpose. They're just like every other commercial trying to sell a product. Not to open up the dozens of other discussions to be had about corporate responsibility, but that just seems irresponsible. Things that can cure or kill you being treated the same as coke vs. pepsi, GI Joe, Barbie, and countless other products that humanity has survived without for thousands of years. Yet according to commercials we cant live without them? And things as important as medications are being pushed like that? Shouldn't the doctors and pharmacists be making educated and informed descisions on prescribing medicine based on medical studies and tests and knowledge of chemical's interaction with the human body, as opposed to, oh, an uninformed, untrained, overly impressionable, ignorant american public?
Not that it would help much. It seems that doctors dont even care anymore anyway. I know thats a gross generalization. However, i see all the time people going to their doctors and insisting on a pill to solve their problems. . . and they get it. We no longer need physical crutches and cures when theres a pill for every ailment. Not pills that correct the problem but pills that make you feel the problem less. This society could care less about actually fixing anything. We just put big huge shiny flashing band-aids on everything. Besides most people dont want their problems (both physical and other) fixed, hence the shiny band-aid. They'd rather have a scapegoat in their problem and get the sympathy of others with their own glamorous problems.
I feel that i am heading towards a serious tangent so i'll stop there. I'll make my next entry a little less angry.
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I've been feeling this way for a while, but the issue seems ever more prominant now with the recent problems with Vioxx, Celebrex, and Naproxen (Aleve et al). Advertisements for prescription drugs are all over TV and in Magazines, and on the radio and at bus stops, and pretty much everywhere. Something just seems wrong advertising that to the general public. Why should people with zero medical or biochemichal or pharmasutical, etc. training be making descisions on how to ease their ailments or combat their disease? And it's not like doctors can really veto a patient's descision; if one doctor won't give a patient what he/she wants, there's another right around the corner who will do so.
These prescription comercials aren't informative. They serve no medical or helpful purpose. They're just like every other commercial trying to sell a product. Not to open up the dozens of other discussions to be had about corporate responsibility, but that just seems irresponsible. Things that can cure or kill you being treated the same as coke vs. pepsi, GI Joe, Barbie, and countless other products that humanity has survived without for thousands of years. Yet according to commercials we cant live without them? And things as important as medications are being pushed like that? Shouldn't the doctors and pharmacists be making educated and informed descisions on prescribing medicine based on medical studies and tests and knowledge of chemical's interaction with the human body, as opposed to, oh, an uninformed, untrained, overly impressionable, ignorant american public?
Not that it would help much. It seems that doctors dont even care anymore anyway. I know thats a gross generalization. However, i see all the time people going to their doctors and insisting on a pill to solve their problems. . . and they get it. We no longer need physical crutches and cures when theres a pill for every ailment. Not pills that correct the problem but pills that make you feel the problem less. This society could care less about actually fixing anything. We just put big huge shiny flashing band-aids on everything. Besides most people dont want their problems (both physical and other) fixed, hence the shiny band-aid. They'd rather have a scapegoat in their problem and get the sympathy of others with their own glamorous problems.
I feel that i am heading towards a serious tangent so i'll stop there. I'll make my next entry a little less angry.
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I LOVE THAT PICTURE!
And I must say that Bianca is a beautiful ferret. And she actually stays on her leash too. I can't get Goose to stay in hers; she always wriggles out and tries to scurry away to have leash-free adventures.
er, anyways, yes, so I took her out and she got loose and I almost lost her in the neighbors yard and i never tried again. I think I'll start practising again so she'll be used to it and then i can take her for little ferret walks.