Miracle Cures and Stool Softeners

Summary


Since coming to live in Florida for half of each year I have become a victim of a new condition known as the 'Ask Your Doctor Syndrome'.

Television advertising in America is almost intolerable, with something like eight three-minute breaks in a one-hour show, the subjects split roughly into three sections - Motor, Medicine and Miscellaneous: and without fail the medicinal adverts will, after extolling the virtues of that particular miracle cure, then quickly and quietly listing even more conditions likely to kill you if you took it, gargled it, bathed in it or smeared it on (For instance, one remedy warns that it is occasionally known to cause cancer) will tell you - even plead with you - to ask your doctor to prescribe it.

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Miracle Cures and Stool Softeners

Now, knowing my doctor, I would probably be thrown out of his...

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