Also how they casually mention obscure-sounding conditions as if they are household terms people use around the dinner table - Wet AMD, ATTR-CR, Non-small cell something-or-other (so, big-cell?), etc.
And how they say “…ask your gastroenterologist…” and “…ask your cardiologist…” about the medication - as if we all have a personal medical team standing by at our beck-and-call. I am sure if you have a relationship with a specialty doctor they are well aware of current treatments of your specific condition.
I’d like some of those. I’d like to stroll on the beach with my handsome man and bouncy dog, watching the sunset. I’d like to sit at a picnic table under a grape arbor, grinning like an idiot, with a dozen of my loving family all gather’d ‘round. Heck, I’d like to be a gay man playing in a drum circle (how come they never show any actual gay-ness in those prep commercials?)….I fear any pill they give me will only extend my miserable life a year or two as I sit listlessly, alone, in my recliner looking for something on tv.
That commercial supports my theory that the action in these commercials is deliberately generic. You could use that commercial imagery for tardive dyskinesia, psoriasis, depression, any number of things, and it would work as well as it does here. (that is, not at all)
Look, they have to fill the screen with visuals of some kind - it usually takes at least 20 seconds to read all the potential side effects (which are required to be disclosed, AIUI). But yeah, they are generally so generic they could be interchangeable.
We saw a “mini infomercial” (one of those five minute ones) for TPUSA. Aside from hating those obnoxious fuckers on their own, this was was trying to tell us we need the sabbath. No one should work on Sundays (Saturday is ignored because we’re all Christians amirite?), no job, no dishes, no nothing. Just staying home with the family, and reading the bible. BORING!
If God wanted us to do nothing all day on Sunday, he wouldn’t have invented the NFL.
They do say it helps with “vision”. She’s having a “vision”.
That’s deliberate. If they don’t mention a disease, they don’t have to list the side effects. So they hint gently at what the drug is intended for but avoid actually stating a medical condition.
The United States and New Zealand are the sole countries permitting direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medications on television, a practice largely banned elsewhere due to significant public health and ethical concerns. Strict regulations govern these ads where permitted, while the debate continues over their impact on patient health and healthcare costs.
Like the “Blue Chew” and other “manliness! I has it!” products. I want to shake the buyers of these products, slap them like Batman and Robin meme: “If this stuff worked, you couldn’t keep it on the shelves! Everyone would buy it. It wouldn’t need to be advertised!”
I seem to recall Bobby Brainworm floating the idea of banning DTC advertising. It’s been a while, so I guess nothing came of it. Maybe he was per$uaded to drop it.
I love that song, and yeah it is all happening in Grandmas mind. And maybe those other adult are parents, or maybe they had to work? But having watched it a couple times- do the little girls ever go en pointe?
This is a sore point for me, having known a one time prima ballerina (or so she claimed, she was Ukrainian, and taught ballet anyway), whose feet were a horror show due to decades of dancing en pointe- she didnt teach that to any girls under 16 herself. (She also smoked heavily, she said it was common for young ballerinas to get hooked on smoking at an early age.)
To me, the ad hovers between 'annoying" and “Okay” due to the cool tune.
Yeah, I mean i do have was kaiser calls a personal physician or something like that.
It is a type of Viagra, and that works, or so they say.
You know what - I have a gastroenterologist and I asked him about a particular colonoscopy prep (which I must have seen an ad for) He knew about it but didn’t mention it because what he didn’t know was the details of my insurance coverage.Apparently at that time , lots of prescription coverage didn’t pay for it and the retail price was about $250 so he just sort of assumed no one would want to pay that much.
But something similar goes for “your cardiologist” as “Wet AMD” - if someone knows they have AFib , they almost certainly have a cardiologist. Who might know all about the treatments, but not necessarily a patient’s preferences - maybe I’d prefer the extended release form of my blood pressure medication so I can take it once a day without worrying that I will forget my second dose. Except I can’t ask for it unless I know it exists.
I hate all the Continuous Glucose monitor ads. Don’t get me wrong, I love mine, finally. They are not painless or perfect.
It sounds so great, tho’. And gives a person much more freedom.
They are basically a subscription service.
The monthly price is $150-to $800, (your insulin is separate). Your Insurance may or may not approve it. Even if brand is prescribed specifically. There are several. Some better than others.
You gotta do your research and know what you’re asking for.
I’ve Officially Had It with those little Shriners Fucks. I could put up with them when it was just around the holidays, but now it’s all day every day every channel.
If I saw those little dudes on the street, I think I’d punch them!
Heh, any use of Christianity to market something makes me reflexively think “This person believes I am a sucker.” It’s fine to be Christian, but using it for marketing makes me immediately distrust you.