{"id":15004,"date":"2009-06-12T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15004"},"modified":"2009-06-12T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:46:17","slug":"cheating-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/cheating-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Death!"},"content":{"rendered":"

George describing the side-effects of his various meds<\/a> reminded me of the always-amusing Colbert Report <\/em>segments where Colbert pokes fun at celebrity pundit endorsements of health products with unabashed flogging of various offerings by Prescott Pharmaceuticals (“The last word in medicine, because Prescott is often, literally, our patients\u2019 last word”). <\/p>\n

Most amusing are the ever-increasingly bizarre side effects which he breezes past in true drug commercial fashion (“Side effects may include Autonomous Nipple Syndrome, Genital Migration, and Brain Tooth”).<\/p>\n

To my great joy, this site<\/a> has compiled all of these, both text and clips. Great fun for next time your doctor is giving you Scary Pills to take.<\/p>\n

“Ask your doctor if Vaxadrone is right for you. And if he says no, see another doctor.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George describing the side-effects of his various meds reminded me of the always-amusing Colbert Report segments where Colbert pokes fun at celebrity pundit endorsements of health products with unabashed flogging of various offerings by Prescott Pharmaceuticals (“The last word in medicine, because Prescott is often, literally, our patients\u2019 last word”).  Most amusing are the ever-increasingly … Continue reading “Cheating Death!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-jokes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38137,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/side-effects-may-vary.html","url_meta":{"origin":15004,"position":0},"title":""Side Effects May Vary!"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Jul-13 5:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's important to understand three\u00a0things:1. 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