Just an observation.....



Sitting in a doctor's office this week, I picked up a 
Christmas magazine that offered interesting  recipes 
and so on..... 

Instead of informative information, interesting recipes .....

 every other page was an ad for DRUGS!  Pills! 





Since I customarily bring a book or something to do, the surplus magazines aren't perused..... 

 Is this what we've come to as a nation?  






Several years ago, a medical doctor expressed his frustration that patients came to him having determined they had a certain condition or required a certain medical test from having seen it advertised on television.....
Has American Ignorance reached this level? 

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