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Originally Posted by svandamme
in their pocket, perhaps poor choice of words.
I mean, the docs are not critical
They get a leaflet of a product
and a rep tells em how that product works, obviously emphasizing on the benefits so the doc "sells" it for them.
Obviously they won't sell it by warning and listing up the side effects and risks.
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I don't know if you see these American drug company commercials on tv in Europe, but we are bombarded with them, and they list all kinds of negative side effects, often making me wonder which disease is worse than that "cure." If not for tv ads, I'd have never heard of any of these drugs. I think they're intended to prompt consumers to ask their doctors about or to prescribe them for them. But they are pretty forthcoming about the side effects - thoughts of suicide, blindness, dry mouth, impotence, seizures - you name it. They are read off aloud at the end of each of those commercials.
So I have to put this back on the prescribing doctors. The drug makers can't write scripts. They can only send their hot female sales reps to the doctors' offices to convince them that their drug is better than another one already out there. What company doesn't do this? The FDA and DEA need to do a better job of policing this where the scripts get written.