PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF!!!!!

 

PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF…..

I am so old; I remember when television commercials actually made sense and it was easy to tell exactly what they were selling. Today I have a difficult time trying to figure out what they want me to buy or what the product actually is.

Do you remember: “where’s the beef?’

Or “let’s let Mikey try it.”

When you saw a commercial for Chef Boyardee, there was never any idea in your mind as to what they were selling and what it was used for.

Same thing for The Jolly Green Giant and English peas. How confusing was that to understand?

When you saw a commercial for a toilet cleaner, you could not go away thinking…”what the heck was that used for?”. Toilet bowl cleaners are difficult to confuse with say a new cake mix.

Today, it’s not so easy. I thought when we went from an AM radio to an FM radio, we would get less commercials. I was wrong. I also thought the same thing would happen when we switched from cable tv to streaming services. They are just as bad, aren’t they?

Is it my imagination or all of the commercials we get here at our house are mainly about some new drug for one kind of illness or another? I mean, I know we’re old but do young people get swamped with medications that don’t cure anything, they just let you exist with it?

Heart, blood pressure, diabetes, skin problems, dry eyes, constipation, issues and the list goes on and on. These don’t actually fix the root cause of the problem, they just mask over it and let you keep on living. I guess if they fixed your illness, then they couldn’t sell you anything more, could they?

So, the commercials I see today are difficult to understand. First, I can’t pronounce their names and second, I can’t tell just exactly what they are used for. They use animated cartoons that have very little resemblance to a sick or ill person. Or all of the characters are skipping and dancing and have a gay old time of it, when they are in danger of dying from some horrible disease of some sort.

I cannot help but get a laugh out of the side effects that get displayed at the end of the commercial in very small, almost invisible print.

These include nausea, skin rash, headache, diarrhea, constipation, nerve damage, hair loss and or possible death. So, you are taking a medication for a skin rash because you got into some poison ivy in the garden and now can possibly lose all of your hair and have your butt fall off.

It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Modern medicine at it’s very finest. Heaven help us all.

Sounds about right for our todays modern world.

See you next week….Peary