Help at last for the Annoyingly Cheerful

Format: Postgraduate and professional

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Language/s: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Target Audience: 2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly

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Short Description:

This humorous video by the Onion illustrates some of the tactics used to push unnecessary treatments or "sell" sickness.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Choices: making informed choices
• čeština

Details

“FDA approves new drug the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.”

This humorous 2 minute video by the Onion illustrates some of the tactics used to push unnecessary treatments or “sell” sickness.  The video uses a fictitous treatment called “Despondex” for this purpose,

Note that the video has:

• a short advertisement at the start
• some adult language near the end
• scenes of unwarranted jauntiness throughout.