Remember the "fat free " Olestra oil. The chips that could produce diarrhea and "leakage".
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Prescription drug commercials should be banned.
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Remember the "fat free " Olestra oil. The chips that could produce diarrhea and "leakage".
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LVSteve
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Telling a medical professional you have an allergy to something can sometimes be difficult. My mother repeatedly told a nurse in a hospital that she was allergic to aspirin when brought a "painkiller". The nurse gave her the "yeah, sure" attitude, and naturally my mother was covered in hives by morning.
Or, when in a dermatologist's office, I told them I was allergic to neosporin. Now, this is a fairly common allergy and so you would think that being a dermatologist's office they would keep plenty of other stuff. The look on the little nurse's face said "Oh ****" large.As for the first amendment and corporations, worst SCOTUS decision ever, IMHO, but I'm still new around here.
Alton
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You have to love how big Pharma works. They were sending out nice looking females in tight skirts to doctors as pharmacy reps. Well with so many female doctors I have a nephew who makes over $100K a year as a pharmacy rep. And all he calls on is female doctors, who says sex doesn't sell.
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Daughter is Med. Surg. Nurse, husband a surgeon. I would " time out" on here posting stories I've heard.
Have a friend that owns his drug store, he would Aways tell me " His" private sale price if my Co pay was more. Health care insurance companies are a Big issue in this thread subject. Sad to say anything related to health care " is where the money is" and attracts the worse.
Have a friend that owns his drug store, he would Aways tell me " His" private sale price if my Co pay was more. Health care insurance companies are a Big issue in this thread subject. Sad to say anything related to health care " is where the money is" and attracts the worse.
It is called capitalism people.
Buy our advertisement services
Sell more of your product
Public will consume your product
Pass on advertisement cost
Insurance will pay
They all make $$$$$$$
Health care, health insurance and Pharma is big money as is advertisement industry
Buy our advertisement services
Sell more of your product
Public will consume your product
Pass on advertisement cost
Insurance will pay
They all make $$$$$$$
Health care, health insurance and Pharma is big money as is advertisement industry
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akoda
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Interesting they have to tell side effects on those adds, yet can offer pizza and loto tickets for the rona jab without telling side effects....
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I record any program I want to watch. That gives me the ability to fast forward through the commercials. Xfinity even has smart forwarding on recorded programs: when the commercial break starts, press FF and it will fast forward through the commercials and automatically stop where the program begins again. I love it and use the heck out of it. Quite possibly the only thing they ever got right, but they sure nailed it!
I asked my doctor, a former Navy doc, a real no nonsense guy, about something I'd seen on TV.
He gave me "THE LOOK" over his glasses and said "If I thought you needed that, I'd prescrive it." I had to laugh out loud. Exactly the response I expected.
As for the commercials? They don't bother me. I always have another channel or two set up as a "go to" for commercials. I don't care if I don't know what's going on. Most of the time I don't anyway.
He gave me "THE LOOK" over his glasses and said "If I thought you needed that, I'd prescrive it." I had to laugh out loud. Exactly the response I expected.
As for the commercials? They don't bother me. I always have another channel or two set up as a "go to" for commercials. I don't care if I don't know what's going on. Most of the time I don't anyway.
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CAJUNLAWYER
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Kinda like that bent carrot on the Peyronie's disease commercial 
"Big Pharma" was the hero not too long ago.
I agree with Paladin, I thought that line was silly. Since your doctor is prescribing it, it's his or her job to determine if it's safe to prescribe, not the patent.
Jon651
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Back when my father was in the US Coast Guard he worked in several US Public Health Service hospitals (back when we actually had US Public Health Service hospitals...), and he used to call these drug salesmen "Detail Men". I'm not sure where that name came from or exactly what it meant - except more work for my dad as he had to monitor the docs for sudden increases in prescriptions of whatever these Detail Men were pushing that month!
I'd say about 3/4s of the whole TV content should be banned.
I will 2nd that.
The drug companies are honest enough to list the possible harmful side effects and the political candidates never do that
Actually the FDA requires that side effects be listed. If you still have the original box that your prescription drug came in there should be an insert listing all of the known effects/side effects in it. Each physician usually has a large book in his/her office known as the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) that is the bound copy of that document for all approved drugs available. The PR shills who write these ads could not even pronounce let alone spell correctly the side effects/disease. Dave_n
Ah, the good old days of just reading a label.
That stuff would sell without any goofy actors. Just put the bottle's ingredients up to the camera. Drug testing? Sign me up to test that one!
pmosley
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Those Fanapt commercial s for schizophrenia a few years back were downright spooky......
Ooh! Trifecta!
I am in the other camp. I want those crazies totally tamed and addicted to the glowing screen.
