[DRAFT] Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs...

[Ransium]

Title: Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@

Validity: Must be capitalist

Opening: Modern Visor, a major biopharmaceutical company in @@NAME@@ caused a stir by advertising a drug to help firm up people who suffer from Limp Wristed Handshake Syndrome on National television.

Option 1: @@RANDOMNAME@@, CEO of Modern Visor, has pre-filmed his argument from what appears to be a bath tub on a hillside with a glorious sunset in the background. "You need to trust the @@DEMONYM@@ people here, @@LEADER@@. There's no reason prescription drugs shouldn't be like any other marketplace. Let us put out the information about our drugs and the consumers will be better informed about what they want when they talk to their doctor."
Effect: the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of pain killer the lead doctor is addicted to

option validity: must have internet, when submitting I'll write a doppelganger referencing magazine articles
Option 2: "For the love of God, no!" cries Dr. @@RANDOMNAME@@ head of the @@DEMONYM ADJECTIVE@@ family medicine council. "Patients already come in self-diagnosing with cancer based on some web searches and a rash. The last thing I need is to also explain to them why they aren't a good candidate for the prescription medicine they saw while watching the evening news. Let's leave recommending medicine to the doctors."
Effect: doctors insist their patient's handshake does not need to be medically enhanced

Option 3: "Do you ever wonder why @@DEMONYM_PLURAL@@ are sick so often?" queries alternative health guru @@RANDOMNAME@@ while placing one of his patented crystal healing necklaces around your neck. "This whole debate simply exposes the rot at the root of prescription health care. The pharmaceutical companies are just out for profit! They don't care if they make people healthy or even sicker. Ban all prescription drugs and let @@DEMONYM_PLURAL@@ walk the bridge of light to pure health."
Effect: police regularly raid speed-boats full of Brancaland amoxicillin

[Jutsa]

Title: Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@

Thank you for this, Ransium. This is one of those issues I so wanted to see covered and so did not want to write, myself.

when submitting I'll write a doppelganger

Tbh this could really make my own drafts on-forum more intelligible couldn't it?

has video-called in

Wouldn't you need internet for this too? Or would leaders theoretically have something not necessarily fax-level to communicate with others with?

Otherwise, solid draft imo. I love the name of the company.

[Ransium]

I think video call is ambiguous enough and that whole line is central to the humor of the option that I don’t really want to change it.

[Candensia]

...cries Dr. @@NAME@@ head of the @@DEMONYM ADJECTIVE@@ family medicine council.

Did you mean @@RANDOMNAME@@ here?

[The Atlae Isles]

I think video call is ambiguous enough and that whole line is central to the humor of the option that I don’t really want to change it.

Perhaps it could be a pre-filmed videotape in a bathtub on the side of a hill?

I think the effect lines of Option 1 and Option 2 should be switched, tbh.

[Ioavollr]

I think the effect lines of Option 1 and Option 2 should be switched, tbh.

I agree fully here. Also I think there's an opportunity to sneak in a silly acronym for the syndrome: Limp-Armed Manipulation Exacerbation or some such.

[Fauxia]

Wow, great to see a new author! Good luck on the issue contest!

Option 2 fallout is a bit of a mouthful, is there any way you might be able to consolidate it?

[Ransium]

Okay I have made the requested changes. I intend to submit this soonish before I forget about it again so last call for comments.