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Re: ads From: Paul Prior MD (pprior@fast.net) Sat Aug 23 21:32:02 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: CT Pelvimetry/Walk-ins (long story)" Previous message: Edwin Bello: "Re: Post tubal ligation ectopic pregnancy" In reply to: Robert J. Woolley: "Re: ads" Next in thread: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: ads" On Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:29:03 -0500, Bob Woolley wrote: >In message <33ff5dc0.24441601@pop.fast.net> writes: >> >> Yes, like how successful we as a profession have been about educating >> the public on proper and judicious use of antibiotics, right? > >We hardly have grounds to complain about the public's demand for antibiotics >when we so-called profressionals are, collectively, atrociously injudicious and >irrational in the use thereof. This is exactly my point - we DO know better, but most hand them out anyway for a variety of reasons not the least of which is the desire to keep patients happy. >> Today more than ever, the private doc is increasingly succeptable to >> market pressures. Add more pressure via patients coming in for the >> latest advertised drug, and it =will= get prescribed more, whether >> needed or not. Sad, but IMHO true. >Of course it's true. The drug manufacturers are hardly going to spend millions >of dollars on advertising if it won't result in increased sales. But I'm puzzled >over why you think that's a "sad" thing. If a layman doesn't know that there are >effective non-sedating antihistamines available just before ragweed season >starts, why is it "sad" if he learns this from a TV ad and asks his doctor to >prescribe them? Because that is not the only drug that will be advertised - many will have side effects, are expensive and will be taken by the pill-popping American public (my apologies to our overseas listers...) who will find they "need" the drug. Just wait until the diet drugs start hitting the airwaves...stand back. -- Paul Prior MD pprior@fast.net Don't Blame Me... PGY-IV Ob/Gyn I Voted For Bob Dole TRHMC-Reading, PA Next message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: CT Pelvimetry/Walk-ins (long story)" Previous message: Edwin Bello: "Re: Post tubal ligation ectopic pregnancy" In reply to: Robert J. Woolley: "Re: ads" Next in thread: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: ads"

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