If you are like me, you despise seeing all the drug commercials every time you turn on the TV. It seems like they are churning out a new drug every week. If you listen to the side-effects listed at the end, you wonder why anyone in their right mind would even think of taking it. We are so drug oriented that we have now labeled every little thing in our society, that is out of the norm, as an illness, which in turn needs a drug to help control or cure it! What are we thinking. While the pharmaceutical companies and Vitamin Companies get rich we get hooked!!! Just ask your doctor if this is right for you …and for him!
Snake Oil Salesman
In days long gone the salesmen traveled
With Snake Oil potions concocted and bottled
From covered wagon they sold their wares
A few drops would in two weeks cure any ill
Step right up get your bottle and pay your bill
Cures headaches stomach cramps and every little chill
Almost two hundred years later they’re still here
In your face on TV peddling tales for you to hear
Sneaky and brazen they make their plea
Step right up folks try this weird new cure
Promising side-effects you don’t want to hear
Xeljan Invokana Keranique and Stelara
Just ask your doctor gets him off the hook
So many pills they don’t all fit in the book
Puts all on you when things go wrong
A hundred bad things happen to get one imagined cure
You need this new bottle it’s only just one more
Leaving you worse off than you ever were before
Snake oil salesmen invade your mind
With flowery words they hope you’re blind
Every day when you turn on your cable line
Blind we are and hooked on their elixir
Trusting our lives to this witchdoctor’s fixer
A drug-crazed public believing every word
Expecting a pill for every ill they’ve heard of
***********************************************
Clip art from: https://bilbosrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/08/clip-art-friday.html
Love the snake oil metaphor! 🙂 I have to agree with you 100% about how we have become a drug “seduced” society. It amazes me how many people accept a diagnosis of names of conditions you can’t even pronounce, whether they go to the doctor or not. One night my husband and I counted about 10 drug commercials within a 30-minute program! 😦 SMH Scary!
LikeLiked by 1 person