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.
Wow, I have learned so much! I do suffer from trouble sleeping and an upset stomach, woah, so I just need to demand Brkdncr from my doctor (they’re too dumb to know how good it is-they just might not have seen the ads) and I’ll feel good. Yeehaw advertising!
It’s literally their job to keep up to date with potential new treatments. How do you think physicians in counties where these ads are banned manage to do their jobs, do you think they have an illegal stream of MSNBC playing in their offices or something?
I just checked because I wasn’t sure, but some states have no continued medical education requirements, some are pretty weak, and others are pretty good.
Until healthcare is socialized I wouldn’t kneecap it. Ads enhance the current capitalist-driven healthcare system.
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.
Hey, you should learn about a simple concept known as “conflict of interest.” That might help you understand the position of others. Your education arguments are completely irrelevant.
Disagree. Drug ads are somewhat informative, especially new treatments.
Your PCP probably can’t keep up with all of the new options that show up every month.
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“Ask your doctor about Brkdncr today.”
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Wow, I have learned so much! I do suffer from trouble sleeping and an upset stomach, woah, so I just need to demand Brkdncr from my doctor (they’re too dumb to know how good it is-they just might not have seen the ads) and I’ll feel good. Yeehaw advertising!
It is your doctors job to keep up with new treatments. And if they’re legitimate they’re not putting out new pills every month
No Other civilized country has drug commercials the way the US does.
Doctors get advertised to too. Only the best of them are actually keeping to what you’d expect. The whole system needs to be changed.
How would you know that your dr doesn’t know about a new treatment?
It’s literally their job to keep up to date with potential new treatments. How do you think physicians in counties where these ads are banned manage to do their jobs, do you think they have an illegal stream of MSNBC playing in their offices or something?
I just checked because I wasn’t sure, but some states have no continued medical education requirements, some are pretty weak, and others are pretty good.
Until healthcare is socialized I wouldn’t kneecap it. Ads enhance the current capitalist-driven healthcare system.
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.
Hey, you should learn about a simple concept known as “conflict of interest.” That might help you understand the position of others. Your education arguments are completely irrelevant.
Try again?
I still believe that advertising drugs to the general public isn’t the answer though.
It will just push the doctors towards the drugs with the heaviest advertisement budget.