Ban direct-to-consumer advertising

Another point that Graham and I agree on. It’s getting frightening:

Patients learn nothing from these ads, besides seeing ridiculously attractive, healthy-looking, active people pretend to have any number of diseases. I’ve said it before”“if the companies were truly interested in educating patients, they would teach them about any number of topics that many patients do not understand. Instead, they hawk products half the time and quickly ramble a list of side effects with the other half left.

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7. Should consumer prescription drug ads be reined in?

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