The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines tolerate: to endure or resist the action of (something, such as drugs or food) without serious side effects or discomfort

The doctors casually throw this word around to patients when the last drug prescribed caused them to hurt

Still not reducing the size of the baggie filled with prescription bottles of assigned pills

All in an attempt of reducing this patient’s misery and hoping the interaction with the other eight prescribed medicines isn’t what kills

Big Pharma might be pleased with the results. Just maybe this will be a commonly prescribed drug as the test rats are still alive

And if the patient can survive another five years, we can all pat ourselves on the back on how long the patient can survive

Then Big Pharma can lean on the insurance companies, the insurance companies their hospital groups, and the hospital groups their associated physicians

And should the patient balk at a new higher priced drug, the doctors have been programmed to say this drug might be their last chance given their conditions

The boardroom will be a happy place as this drug plus the other eight will make this individual worth 156 grand

And by tying in the insurance companies and their associated hospital groups, we can increase demand

We don’t ever want to address the root cause of this malady as that would end our never ending payday

And cause our ever-growing house of cards to collapse and decay

We can put this pill in a TV ad with a paid actor’s sworn testimony

And potential customers will eat it up not reading the fine print as they would see the ad as phony

Statistics will become a factor. Of the 1000 people not taking this drug (regardless of lifestyle) three people died

And only one person died of the 1000 taking the drug so one would have a 68% of not surviving if you don’t take this drug or so the stats implied

So if you can tolerate this drug and the side effects don’t cripple your lifestyle, you can join the happy people from the ad on the beach kicking up sand

And you’ll never know to that drug company you’re only worth 156 grand