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It'll never not be fascinating how people think peddling advanced medicine directly to the consumer is a normal thing to do.
I seriously don’t get. I have never once gone to my doctor and asked for medicine I saw on tv.
I’m not trying to defend pharma ads, but: you probably don’t have a serious chronic illness.
If you had, say, rheumatoid arthritis, you would have probably tried a dozen different meds over the years in various combinations: Enbrel, Humira, methotrexate, etc. So if you saw a commercial for an RA medication that you know didn’t exist last year you’d take notice because this may be the one that finally lets you walk without pain again. You’re already scheduled to see your rheumatologist every 3 months because the medication you’re currently on is eroding your liver. Maybe you want to ask if this new med might be better.
If I need a doctor's perscription to get it anyway, it should be advertised to doctors only, not the general public. Awareness of the options available is their responsibility. Receiving a trained expert's diagnosis and their recommended treatment is the entire point of why I'm seeing a doctor in the first place.
If it's not a restricted pharma product, fine, I guess. I don't like ads for those either, but I can't come up with a compelling argument why a product I can get at the grocery store can't be publicly advertised, beyond my gut feeling that it's a mildly scummy practice.