My Pilgrimage to the Wall

For some, life's ultimate pilgrimage is to the Great Wall of China...for others it is the Weeping Wall in Jerusalem...and for others educated about world history in U.S. public schools, it is to go see Wall-E at the local theatre. All of which are nobel quests, but I want to submit another great shrine for your consideration, a wall that all PharmFree activists should one day visit. I am standing here in L.A. with Dr. Jeffrey Caren, the artist-cardiologist whose "wall o' pens" has been featured in articles such as the recent NYT piece. I hitch-hiked over 1000 miles (via airplane), then traversed harsh terrains (L.A. freeway) in the most rugged of transport vehicles (economy rental car) to get to this PharmFree Promised Land, but it was worth it. I wept, I cried, and reached for a drug-company tissue box, at which point Dr. Caren sat me down, consoled me, and explained that generic tissues had better safety ratings and equivalent efficacy to the ones I was using...as I left the office, I could not help but notice a smaller display. a box of drug samples in a clear-glass enclosed display. Through my teary eyes, I peered closer, and saw that they were Viagra samples, with a larger inscription over them that read, "In case of emergency, break glass." My pilgrimage had come to a fitting end!