7 January 2004
let your doctor think for herself
I have nothing good to say today (though I could delve into yesterday's watching of Platoon, I won't) so I'm just going to complain about the escalating drug problem in this country. Every mass medium now is flooded with ads for prescription drugs (once relegated merely to the pages of Reader's Digest) and all of them smarmily order the reader/viewer to ask their doctor about this and that. Many of these (save for the ones in RD) don't even say what the stupid pill does or is intended to do when its not causing diarrhea and sexual side effects. What bugs me more than that, though, is the idea our doctors are not well-informed about treatments and medicines to such a degree that TV watching morons must inform them of self-prescribed new wonder drugs.
Why do drug companies spend so much money advertising to people who can only ask their doctors? Why not advertise solely to the doctors, and pocket the difference? You know, save money and waste less time? How can advertising to people who have no direct control over the drugs prescribed to them be at all profitable? It boggles the mind.
Wow, this has been such an original and insightful post.
2 comments on let your doctor think for herself
add your comment
I can and will moderate any and all comments at my discretion. I will not ever display or reveal your email address without your permission.
I have never read such an original and insightful post.
There are times I wish that there could be a way to demark seriousness and sarcasm in HTML. Than there are times I can bear to know the difference.