Side Effects

Have you ever noticed that a medication, any medication, has side effects?  Even common aspirin can cause bleeding, tissue erosion, is bad for people with ulcers, and God knows what else.  Now that American television allows advertising for prescription medications, apparently the ads must also disclose the possible side effects.  So we hear ads for depression medication, with the possible side effect of thoughts of suicide, not good.  Other medications with side effects like pain, swelling, blurred vision, dizziness.  Wow, why take them?  Of course, one of the most interesting side effects that they mention is swift and painful death.  That's a very grave (no pun intended) side effect indeed.  Of course, trying to look on the bright side of things, if you experience the side effect of swift and painful death, you will no longer have the symptoms that you needed to take the medication for in the first place.  And who can escape the ads for medications for erectile dysfunction?  That possible injury after a 4-hour problem sounds nasty.  Imagine having to run to an emergency room and explaining to the triage nurse this bit of problem.  Surely, she will need to see it.  Could be quite embarrassing.  And anyway if the stuff really works all that well when the moment strikes, why do we always see the couple (presumably after they have acted upon the moment) in separate bath tubs facing the ocean or a pool or another body of water?  If the medication had worked, wouldn't they be together in the same tub?  What's with those separate tubs?