Last weekend's NPR Sunday puzzle with Will Shortz featured a couple as the contestant, the first time I can remember that happening. I always wondered how NPR dealt with the many folks who must do the puzzle together, and because I'd never heard two people do the quiz at once, I had assumed only one could be on at a time.
But of more interest to me was the fact that the woman contestant of the pair said she made her living coming up with names for "pharmaceutical products" -- i.e., all of the brand-name drugs we see advertised constantly.
Now there's a job I wish didn't exist. A world where that job wasn't needed would be a world where drugs aren't marketed to the public (and doctors) like soft drinks. Where millions of dollars of money aren't wasted on said marketing. And where I don't have to put up with hearing names like these, cloaked in pseudo-Latin and Greek:
- Abilify
- Ambien
- Lunesta
- Avandia
- Cymbalta
- Celebrex
- Elavil
- Levitra
Geez, I'm starting to sound like Andy Rooney.
1 comment:
We used to joke about creating a kids’ tranquilizer — Comply. Sad that it’s really come to that now that high spirits and rambunctiousness are regarded as conditions in need of medication.
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