Mexico Medical Student |

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I was browsing around and clicked through a link from GruntDoc’s site where I was greeted with the most graphic banner ad I’ve ever seen. I’m not talking about the unwitting bare-it-all ads that all of us have to endure even though we aren’t at such sites (of course, if we are at such sites, that’s another matter entirely), I’m talking the oozy medical kind, like this one, which contains images of diabetic foot ulcers/wounds. (Since I linked directly to the image, you can’t further click to the advertiser’s page unless you go from here).

Does a company really need to advertise in such a way? I’m reading about laser-assisted local anesthesia–trés cool, cutting edge–so the intrusion of a gaping venous stasis ulcer (in a banner ad, no less) is not quite what I was prepared for. Oh well. At least there weren’t any maggots…