Free Drugs at Fast Food Restaurants??!!??
You must check out this link: Cheeseburger, Fries and Lipitor Please.
I was listening to the news, couldn’t believe what I was hearing and then looked up this article. I realize this is not my usual blog style, but this story is much bigger than it seems at first glance.
So, the idea that these researchers have in England is to hand out a cholesterol lowering drug, Lipitor, with every fatty meal. They claim that the risks of liver disease and muscle problems will not outweigh the risks of eating fat. So, we are being told that rational people are allowing fast food workers the right to dispense medication.
1. This is the most sickening form of advertising I have ever seen as this must be the intention. Go ahead and eat all the burgers which are bad for you and we admit it, but also take this drug which may not be as bad.
2. Just take the drug, as your fast food guy knows best. He/she is the new primary care doctors we have been looking for.
3. No follow-up? Can’t we setup a little lab next to the bathrooms at McDonalds? Free liver profile with every Over-sized meal?
4. Think of a sign at McD, “Take drugs with our food and you will live another day to buy more food and drugs”
5. I could go on and on, but I am not yet to the point where I want to trash pharmaceuticals, but please, as a board certified physician, I am not safe to recommend cannabis, but these kids can distribute “free” drugs? Next the drugs will be INSIDE the food and we won’t even know how well we are being taken care of.
How about some healthier food and a free joint?
YUCK!!
I would love to believe it is a prank as well. On the other hand, Merck has not denied anything and won’t talk. So???
I really want to believe this is a joke. That some pranksters have decided to dress up as pharmaceutical reps in order to pull a fast one on us. It just seems impossible to believe that fast food joints would seriously consider selling their Big Mac Meal deal with a Lipitor back.