My wife read the warning label on some medication she had been prescribed. She decided the risk of death or even the lesser side effects wasn’t worth whatever relief it might have given her. Later on when they had some class action suit on that very same medication, she thought, “Well they didn’t read the the warnings.”
The pharmacist should explain whatever it is that he wants the patient to glean by reading. What if the patient can’t read, or he’s not fluent in English?
C 11 months ago
This really needs the piano of impending doom accompaniment
flashdrive1988 11 months ago
He should offer the standard tiny Pharmaceutical bottle, with the usual 0.0000001 pica print of instructions.
sandpiper 11 months ago
Agree with that. Company self-promotion gets majority of space. Essential consumer info becomes an ink blot, which means whatever you guess it means.
jaydogg187 11 months ago
Possible disclaimer: “Do not consume without the presence of an attorney.”
win.45mag 11 months ago
One micro gram helps, 2 kills.
Dani Rice 11 months ago
Sometimes the side effects are worse than the illness.
Charles 11 months ago
Unfortunately, government mandates the useful and potentially life-saving instructions be hidden behind ten pages of completely useless warnings.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 11 months ago
He’ll never take it if he reads the possible side effects section.
rmercer Premium Member 11 months ago
“Pretty much anything is possible as a side effect.”
dflak 11 months ago
My wife is a nurse, so whenever one of her patients is prescribed a drug, she looks it up.
For one of my medications there are 8 pages of side effects. Fortunately, none of them are death.
one more ole man 11 months ago
Are the side affects worse than what it is supposed to cure?
jconnors3954 11 months ago
And a magnifying glass.
tremaine53 11 months ago
I notice that the instructions are in incredibly small script.
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom 11 months ago
It probably says something about anal leakage in the small print.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member 11 months ago
“Do not take this medication under any circumstances.”
mindjob 11 months ago
I unfurled the instructions on one of my pill bottles and thought I had discovered the Dead Sea scrolls
h.v.greenman 11 months ago
It takes longer to read the instructions, than the prescription is for
Mediatech 11 months ago
Nitroglycerin pills?
Calvins Brother 11 months ago
…And don’t, whatever you do, chew it!!!!
monya_43 11 months ago
One of the side effects of life is death.
David Huie Green OnceASnakeAlways 11 months ago
My wife read the warning label on some medication she had been prescribed. She decided the risk of death or even the lesser side effects wasn’t worth whatever relief it might have given her. Later on when they had some class action suit on that very same medication, she thought, “Well they didn’t read the the warnings.”
rshive 11 months ago
My Dad was a pharmacist. He would frequently give people special verbal instructions with meds. “Make sure you’re sitting down when you take this.”
cuzinron47 11 months ago
Oh great, now he has to buy a magnifying glass.
raybarb44 11 months ago
The pharmacist must also advise very, very, very, very carefully also…..
hubbard3188 11 months ago
Leave the bottle on the counter and step away slowly.
wndflower1 11 months ago
especially the part about the side effects!
Stocky One 11 months ago
The pharmacist should explain whatever it is that he wants the patient to glean by reading. What if the patient can’t read, or he’s not fluent in English?