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LIVING LONGER THROUGH LABISTRY
Here’s to the guys in the lab.
Also shopping in Wal-Mart, which has become, for some reason, another media bugaboo.
The reason is simple - like motorsports and smoking, Wal-Mart is favored by the lower class. And liberal media elites despise the lower class.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to light up a Marlboro while watching the Laguna Seca MotoGP on DVD, before I head to Wal-Mart to return my battery core for the deposit.
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Unfortunately, my picture is in the restrooms, sternly admonishing employees to wash their hands before returning to work.
I was in a Westfield Shoping Centre once where there was a picture of a male and a female Westfield employee, with the caption “We’re here to help you”. The problem I had with it was that it was directly above the urinal I was using…
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 12 at 05:02 PM • permalinkPfizer and the like used to drop off little gifts, no strings attached. The practice has now been banned. I’ve heard of, though unfortunately never been a recipient of, some inappropriate stuff, but what got my ire was when they banned the fluffy toys. Now I only have a couple left to give to children who behave well in times of sickness (or vaccination!) I’d have to say that the big pharmcos do far, far more good than harm. Credit to them, and especially to those brilliant scientists in the lab. Designer drugs (no, not those sort) are here - newer, more effective and better tolerated than their predecessors, and the best is yet to come.
My quality of life would be zero without drugs for asthma, hayfever, SVT, hypertension.
Not to mention amazing procedures which can now be carried out to diagnose and treat all kinds of illnesses.Thanks!
(And I don’t care if a cute bunny died to make my life longer, and more comfortable health-wise!)
#8. The thought police are worried that the fluffy toys will make you prescribe innapropriately. Where I work I still get fluffy toys, my Pfizer tiger is my favourite, but at educational meetings there are severe limitations on what food the drug companies may provide - ie only basic fare allowed - and definitely no entertainement whatsoever.
#37 AlburyShifton
“We’re here to help you”. The problem I had with it was that it was directly above the urinal I was using…
Heh heh. I know your problem well, Alby — which of the two employees would you choose to help you at the time. Had to make the same choice recently when presenting with a rash in a sensitive area. Do I go for my gorgeous female GP, or the skin specialist bloke at the same practice?
Back on topic: I am enjoying my eighth decade of good health and have nothing but praise for the guys in the labs that have made it possible.When I was 13, docs at Foothills Hosp in Calgary Alberta Canada diagnosed hypo-thyroidism. It had gone on so long, the next stage, I was told, was deformity, then death. I’ve been taking thyroid meds of various kinds (there’s synthetic now, which is great for those keeping kosher) ever since. Am relatively ‘normal’ though below average height. I also take hormones for symptoms of The Change, Zocor for cholesterol, & Motrin for extreme pain. I have a TENS unit for my back. ALL of these things are available to me because of the unnamed folks in the labs. Having had more than one life-saving medical procedure in my half-century, I know enough to be grateful to all levels of talent & perseverence that bring these treatments to lil ol me.
Miracle workers, helping me be a walking miracle.
I’m waiting for a really good knee replacement. (Been waiting now for just over 40 years, so I guess a while longer won’t matter.) My wife, though, has an excellent first cousin who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at around age one or two and her parents were told she’d be lucky to make it to 18. She’s now 37, I think, and still a wonderful person (I’ve known her for almost 20 years and she has always been great). She’ll not have any children but she has a great marriage and works mostly out of her home and lives a full life.
Thank you, thank you, thank you modern medicine and BigPharma.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 12 13 at 01:14 AM • permalinkI’m waiting for a really good knee replacement. (Been waiting now for just over 40 years, so I guess a while longer won’t matter.) My wife, though, has an excellent first cousin who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at around age one or two and her parents were told she’d be lucky to make it to 18. She’s now 37, I think, and still a wonderful person (I’ve known her for almost 20 years and she has always been great). She’ll not have any children but she has a great marriage and works mostly out of her home and lives a full life.
Thank you, thank you, thank you modern medicine and BigPharma.
Have you ever noticed how it’s the Right that’s in favour ofBigPharma spending squillions and finding treatments for conditions, whereas the Left always wants to abort and euthanase, so as to preserve “dignity” (and, presumably, socialism’s scarce resources)?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 13 at 02:03 AM • permalink#7
I was in a Westfield Shoping Centre once where there was a picture of a male and a female Westfield employee, with the caption “We’re here to help you”. The problem I had with it was that it was directly above the urinal I was using…
Exactly the same here (you’re not in Perth, are you?) but someone had added in black, bold texta underneath ... OK, here, hold this ...
My wife wondered why I was giggling when I met her outside.
phhht - them and their “evidence-based” medicine.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 07:43 PM • permalinkBig Pharma is the Rearden Steel of the 21st Century (with apologies to Ayn Rand)
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 12 14 at 10:11 PM • permalink
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Indeed. With my asthma, I would not have lived to see
4029 without modern medicine.