Originally Posted by
ptquilts
I have seen ads on TV for meds, and could not tell what the drug was supposed to do. Of course, it ended, "Ask your doctor if (drug) is right for you."
Since you can't get the drug if the doctor doesn't write the prescription I wonder why they advertise at all. I guess the answer is that enough patients tell their doctors they want to try medicine that they saw advertised on TV and the doctors let the patients decide what medicines they will prescribe. I think that is the scary part! I had a family doctor tell me that when a movie came to town and a character had particular symptoms he knew he would have a run of patients in his office certain they had the very same symptoms. People are easily influenced.