The advertising of pharmaceuticals is really interesting in this country. Often, you have no idea what condition the medicine is actually supposed to cure, and the advertisement just says that you should "ask your doctor if 'Brand X' is right for you." Add to that the recent proliferation of non-problem problems ("restless leg syndrome" anyone?) and the picture gets even fuzzier.
Well, this morning there was an ad not for a medicine but for an alleged condition called P.A.D. (peripheral artery disease). It shows a couple reading a newspaper that has a story about, what else, P.A.D. The couple discuss the "information" contained in the "news." At one point -- I am not making this up -- the commercial says that the condition has no symptoms, and later the couple looks afraid and says, "That could be US!!"
Yes, but how do you know that???
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