Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients.
Yes because the system they operate within isn’t designed to promote education. It’s designed to serve shareholders. Also, medical professionals are human
I recognize that pharmaceutical ads are scum, but the knee jerk reaction to cancel one aspect of the system without evaluating the vacuum left behind once it’s gone isn’t going to benefit anyone.
I have definitely asked my specialist about a specific new drug as a treatment option and 6 months later they were using it successfully with other patients, and a year later with me. This helped me avoid an extremely costly surgery, and kept a number of operations off of the schedule, freeing all of those resources for others.
If ads weren’t allowed, the drug may not have ever been produced because of its cost, and people would either be suffering or getting costly medical procedures.
I’m 100% for socializing healthcare, and believe the US has a real addiction to the current system but banning ads will only cause more harm until the other issues are addressed first.
So you’re doubling down on the idea that physicians need TV advertising in order to do their jobs?
Weird as hell but you do you.
Yes because the system they operate within isn’t designed to promote education. It’s designed to serve shareholders. Also, medical professionals are human
I recognize that pharmaceutical ads are scum, but the knee jerk reaction to cancel one aspect of the system without evaluating the vacuum left behind once it’s gone isn’t going to benefit anyone.
I have definitely asked my specialist about a specific new drug as a treatment option and 6 months later they were using it successfully with other patients, and a year later with me. This helped me avoid an extremely costly surgery, and kept a number of operations off of the schedule, freeing all of those resources for others.
If ads weren’t allowed, the drug may not have ever been produced because of its cost, and people would either be suffering or getting costly medical procedures.
I’m 100% for socializing healthcare, and believe the US has a real addiction to the current system but banning ads will only cause more harm until the other issues are addressed first.
That is the exception, not the rule.
Most people should be getting their drug news from trade publications and scientific studies, not commercial advertising.