I just saw a new pharma add

[GP6971]

"Tell you doctor" isn't it the other way around??? Your Dr tells you what you should be taking

[steve2470]

1. To pressure your doctor into prescribing their product

Of course, you are correct.

[GP6971]

3. I had a great doctor who recently retired

We had a great relationship. I would jokingly tell him about a new drug that I thought I should have. After all, the commercial said "talk to your doctor". He always laughed.....great man.

[Hoyt]

2. Nowadays, you better have some idea of what is going on when you see your doc. With that said,

a bunch of the drug ads are BS and just increase health care costs needlessly.

[SheilaT]

4. Haven't these ads been saying that for

at least the past five years?

I'm not sure, because without a TV and don't often see these ads.

[hunter]

5. My doctors love me. I'm always an interesting interuption to their daily grind.

Even when I owe them money.

I'm a cantankerous, knowledgeable, funny, and very often non-compliant patient.

Working together my doctors and I usually find something that works. More or less. There is a limit to what I will accept. If I fuck myself up too badly I will not blame anyone, not even myself. I always do what seems the right thing to do at the time. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose.

I don't see pharmaceutical ads on television because I don't watch television.

[GP6971]

6. They are all over the channels

cable, network....you name it. Disgusting

[hunter]

7. No cable. No Satellite. No Broadcast.

I'm much happier this way.

I get the local newspaper and I can ignore the crap.

I subscribe to internet sites like DU so I don't have to see ads.

There are a few technical internet sites I visit that don't have pernicious ads.

I will not install Adobe Flash. My O.S. is Linux. I reject most browser "cookies."

No big deal. I'm not buying what people are selling anyways.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Fun fact, the USA is one of only two countries in the world...

where direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs is even legal. Everywhere else? Pharmaceuticals can be advertised in professional journals (for physicians), but not in newspapers, magazines, television or radio.