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Are pharmaceutical advertisements usually appropriate and helpful to patients?

(Total Votes: 241)

Yes, most of the time (15.8%)
 

Not usually (61.4%)
 

Sometimes (22.8%)
 


Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• Healthcare should be about helping people, not making money from advertisements.

• y r we mre knowledgeable abt drugs.drs shd be 1st line of defense not patients

• The price of a pharmaceutical drugs now also includes the price of advertising it.

• Their ads are one reason for our high prices at the drug store. Info too techy for average person

• it can help a patient recognize a symptom that they had that they didn't understand

• they are interested in only one thing--selling a product and making $$$

• Just propaganda designed to make the drug companies some money.

• HOLY COW!!!! I SURE HOPE THAT THIS IS WORKING

• AADHD ads are helpful. (flashing scene from scene, how can someone lose interest in that?

• only if they have to be

• Not helpful to the Medically Niave, who can't spot slanted statistics to sell a product!

• Not at all

• birth contrl

• I think they confuse people and make them force doctors to prescribe just to have peace.

• Not when they don't say what they are for.

• one a day

• They feed on our neurosis to make a buck...a big buck.

• threy should be banned

• no, they're a thinly veiled attempt to make more money

• It's time to stop popping pills and get healty the old fashioned way. Diet and exercise.

• Pharmaceutical companies spend WAY too much money on advertising instead of using their money on R&D

• anti social

• loes

• Major reason meds cost so much - advertising them

• Too much information

• Raises the cost of drugs

• Sure, as big money income for the drug companies

• birth control

• No! They should be illegal.

• Don't trust them, always thoroughly check out side effects.

• DANGEROUS

• Most of the time you don't even know what the product treats; how can that be helpful???

• Ads balloon the cost of our medications and do nothing to improve our medical care.

• they are outrageous-should be banned

• patients diagnose and prescribe for themselves, what do we need doctors for?

• They are usually too difficult to understand.

• weight loss

• self serving

• no they do not

• Half the time they won't even tell us what the meds are for..."Ask Your Doctor About ________!!"


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