Todd comes home from work and presents me with a delicious chocolate upon chocolate cookie extravaganza. My eyes go big.
"Where did you get this?" I gasp. Me loves me some chocolate.
My husband, the pharmacist, looks sheepish.
"You don't want to know." He mumbles.
Sucking in my breath, I can't believe it. He actually brought me a goodie provided by a drug rep from a pharmeceutical company? What is wrong with him? Seriously?
For those who don't know...reps from Big Pharma are all over just about every department in every hospital in every city, bringing not only gadgets, pads of paper with their logo, travel mugs, pens, etc., but also lunch, dinner and other snacks(overworked hospital staff love when reps come with food) in an effort to push their products. And this is just the tip of the ice berg. You would keel over if you knew the "perks" many doctors receive from Big Pharma.
I march over to the stainless steel trash bin in the kitchen and drop the "offensive as a turd" cookie in.
In the spirit of the above exchange, I offer you the following amazing post , which depicts the autism epidemic, in a nut shell.
And HT? Dearheart. Thank you for thinking of me, but....
I don't want it in our house.
Not a pen. Not a mouse pad. Not a knife. Not a CD. Not a water bottle. Not a library bag. Not a travel mug. Not a throw blanket. Not tickets to anything. Not a magnet for the fridge.
Not even...a chocolatey chocolate cookie.
Capiche?
12 comments:
I don't think he capiches, he said, "You don't want to know," but he gave it to you anyway!
HT, we still love you, but c'mon. Seriously? Seriously!
I used to work in a Doctor's office in college. Trips, dinners...you could get very fat writing out those Rx's...
if you were a doctor with no moral responsiblity.
Good for you, sister friend!
I'll bake you some damned chocolate cookies.
THANK YOU for that link! she is brilliant. and i love every word she wrote. and i agree wholeheartedly.
the word around these days is vaccines don't cause autism. that isn't it. that isn't what people are saying. it's the neurotoxin in the vaccines, that has been in the vaccines until recently, that has increased as the number of vaccines given to smaller and smaller beings has increased that is the issue. how is it something to debate that neurotoxins are toxic to developing neurology?
and, as Read so beautiful illustrates, since when have pharmaceutical companies been trustworthy?
I capiche you loud and clear - and thanks for sharing your experiences w/ autism and big pharma, and thanks the great link.
capiche.
Michelle, thank you SO MUCH for linking to my post, and I am really, really proud of you for putting the turd cookie in the garbage. You're my hero!!
And Kyra, thank you!
I was at my Dr's office, up by the front desk, waiting as usual for something that should take 2 minutes. A pharm rep. was there schmoozing all the clerks and giving out crap like a snake oil salesman.
Wish more people would "capiche"
I love me a woman who sticks to her convictions! EVEN in the face of chocogoodness.
:)
Umm...that essay kicks ASS. I'm putting it on my side bar.
:)
Love it! If only those drug reps knew...
"Not even...a chocolatey chocolate cookie." Wow. That's certainly more will-power than I have!lol
Great. Now I want one. Stupid diet.
My dad is a doc. I used to really like the pen-lites though. Could you forgive me? I was just a child.
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