doctor's office while I've been sitting there waiting for a 10am appointment that's been delayed for an hour. You can tell them by their leather attaches' and sharp business attire. They are the REAL drug dealers. I know they are people just doing their jobs. That is always the excuse. I thinking making pitches to an doctor are anyone else to convince people to use a drug requiring a prescription should be illegal. There should be notifications, not advertisements, to M.D.'s, hospitals and regular people that a new drug is available for any medical condition. The news feeds can accommodate that the same way they accommodate a Justin Beiber alert.

advertising. Look at all the ad time drug companies scarf up. There are other factors too of course. Viewers spread out over 200 chanels for one thing. Back in the 70's we probably had 90% of the people watching five where I was from. Even a little independant drive-in restaraunt guy could put a spot on local tv and see results.

That should be an issue for even some large corporations. They have to compete with drug companies for ad time.

and frequently responds to what she puts up) I asked what she thought of all the pharmaceutical advertising. I'd think doctors would feel it was a pain in the ass. I asked if she had patients constantly coming in already convinced that they needed a particular drug for what they thought was their problem?

I got no response at all from either of them and let it go. You'd think that would be a big issue worth commenting on but maybe they don't dare say anything negative out in the open?

Since a persons mental attitude has a lot to do with how effective treatment is, if the doc doesn't agree with them and wants to try something other than what a television commercial has convinced them of, that has to screw things up for both of them.

... against a corporation's profit margin, is inherently flawed and corrupt. Corporation's who each day more heavily control and fund teaching hospitals from which their ''future employees and sales reps'' will come -- you can expect no better than what we have under such a regime.

- It will all have to come down and start anew.....

ever happened about it though.