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Should advertising of prescription drugs on television are prohibited to consumers?
Pharmaceutical companies want money. This much is clear. That they are willing to give up, the ethics shows that its leadership hat.Leute little morality that actually need certain medications, the appropriate provisions will receive from their doctors. (As far as I’m concerned, should be free to health care in the U.S.). People think they need drugs because of the ads often go to their doctors and demand that they get a prescription for the desired drug. If your doctor refuses, they get angry and try the doctor, they need it, or go to another doctor that they will sign a recipe to überzeugen.Das end result is that many people drugs they do not need to get. You risk dangerous Nebenwirkungen.Für antibiotics, this is even worse. Millions of antibiotic prescriptions are written annually for the common cold – caused by viruses! This carries the risk of gettting more antibiotic resistant bacteria, why we need consumer advertising for prescription drugs?
Absolutely, those ads should be banned from TV. I’ve heard so many docs complain about the time wasted having to discuss some medication that patient saw on TV for a condition the patient doesn’t even have! Hasn’t managed care made our office visits short enough as it is? Now half the measly 10-15 minutes is wasted on explaining why the patient doesn’t need “the purple pill” or whatever the drug of the month is. Pharma ads should stay where they belong–in medical journals, where the people who know what they’re for and how to use them will see them.
As far as people having the right to know what’s out there. If you have a specific condition, there are plenty of ways to get info and explore your drug options for YOUR condition. If you have erectile dysfunction, you can go to any clinic, pharmacy, talk to your doctor, or just go on webmd or google your condition or something and find PLENTY of info. This blanket, mass advertising to the public at large is all about making money, not about people’s health or “right to know”.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel better now.