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That would meet the great entertainment criteria 'informative AND entertaining'.
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
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Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#132How about banning reps from visiting doctors and pushing their products?
Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#133Even though many commenters here write about how creepy these ads are, I don’t think many people realize how weird this looks to the rest of the world. The US and New Zealand are the only two western nations which even allow them to exist.
As I am not residing in the US myself, the only experience I have of this phenomenon is in parody form: Progenitorivox!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYodDH4qZQo
(I may or may not have written this comment with the exclusive purpose of linking that video.)
Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#134As part of the UK's single-payer system, it is illegal to advertise prescription medicines to the public. Seems to work.
You mean DTC advertising?
There are still sales reps in the UK, no?
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Patient goes in and "asks their doctor" about a drug. I wonder if this really ever happens. I mean, for many of the ads, it's hard to tell even what the drug does, so going to your doctor and asking for that med would amount to a random question.
Oh hell yes. The main one peaople ask me about right now is Marcumar/Warfarin, a drug many patients with atrial fibrillation have to take for the entire rest of their life, despite the fact that it has awful side effects and requires them to go to their doctor every two to four week to have a blood test done. Many patients are quite excited to hear that there's now new alternative drugs (NOAKs) that let you skip the…
>Patients really do NOT want to hear about how they have to get stuck with needles every two weeks so their doctor can save a few Euro a month in the prescription budget.
This doesn't make much sense as an American.
Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#136These ads are one of the main reasons I became a cord cutter. I'm very happy they have not yet followed me onto any of the streaming services I use. They are the creepiest thing ever on television. The actors sit around dinner tables with family members speaking unnatural, FDA manipulated dialog ("Oh, I'm doing great, I've been taking Pradaxa for my afib, not caused by a heart valve problem!") Then you get the unendi…
As Chris Rock put it some years back, the commercials are getting more and more ridiculous each year. To quote:
"So I was listening to this one where it goes... Do you go to bed in the evening and wake up in the morning? And I went Oh my god! I totally got that! I should go see a doctor!"
Really couldn't have said it better myself.
Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#137Glad to see AMA expand their lobbying efforts beyond protecting incompetent doctors from lawsuits.
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#138I'm a doctor, and I think this is a good idea. The information provided to both doctors and patients by drug companies is marketing material. The best source of information is peer-reviewed publications, and even those are subject to some bias. Still, that's the best source we have, and should be the primary way all of us get health care information. If you, as a patient, do not understand what the reasearch articles…
> If you, as a patient, do not understand what the research articles are about, bring them with you to your appointment.
As a doctor do you actually take time for questions? Can you be my doctor? Most of the time the doctors I visit are quick to write a 'scrip to treat symptoms instead of taking the time to find the root cause. After 10 years still no luck.
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#139Re: Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
#140As part of the UK's single-payer system, it is illegal to advertise prescription medicines to the public. Seems to work.
You mean DTC advertising? There are still sales reps in the UK, no?
Yes, although actual prescribing is supposed to be limited by the government agency NICE.
(see also https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advertise-your-medicines )