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Are pharmaceutical advertisements usually appropriate and helpful to patients?
(Total Votes: 241)
Yes, most of the time (15.8%) | |
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Not usually (61.4%) | |
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Sometimes (22.8%) | |
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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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