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Because of your Medical System in the UK I doubt that you are inundated with constant TV commercials for every new drug prescription that hits the market. Years ago it was simply commercials for medicines to give relief for CONSTIPATION/ACNE/HEMORRHOIDS, and now it's prescriptions for SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION/ATRIAL FIB/ GOUT (yes gout)/ BLOOD THINNING MEDICATIONS/PROSTATE PROBLEMS/DEPRESSION and every other medical condition imaginable.

Ask your doctor if this med is right for you the commercial says. I could almost support SOCIALIZED MEDICINE just to get rid of the damn commercials. :wah:

Crazy, isn't it. One of my daughters used to enjoy saying: "daddy, can you get me some of those bla bla bla next time you go to the drug store?" Prescription drug TV advertising is relatively new along with hard liquor and attorney commercials.

What's the greatest medical advance we've made in the last 20 years? Viagra.

I'm sure there're others but we'll never hear of them. Whatever happened to the artificial heart?

I always like the "...Tell your doctor if you have heart/kidney/liver/whatever condition, before taking this medicine"

I mean, shouldn't your doctor already know that before prescribing the stuff?

And doctors wonder why many people now see them as drug pushers for drug companies.

Lon;1364300 wrote: Because of your Medical System in the UK I doubt that you are inundated with constant TV commercials for every new drug prescription that hits the market. Years ago it was simply commercials for medicines to give relief for CONSTIPATION/ACNE/HEMORRHOIDS, and now it's prescriptions for SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION/ATRIAL FIB/ GOUT (yes gout)/ BLOOD THINNING MEDICATIONS/PROSTATE PROBLEMS/DEPRESSION and every other medical condition imaginable.

Ask your doctor if this med is right for you the commercial says. I could almost support SOCIALIZED MEDICINE just to get rid of the damn commercials. :wah:


Fundamentally different way of looking at thing I think. We go to a doctor and expect him to help us, referring on to hospital and specialists as necessary. I expect him or her to know what they are doing otherwise why am I paying them. Prescriptions should only be given on a basis of need and a doctor taking incentives to push a particular drug would find themselves in trouble. There's enough fuss if they use a branded drug when a generic one is available and the it is gradually dawning on the NHS that they have been ripped off by the drug companies in the past and actually the NHS has considerable buying clout they haven't been using enough. There are adverts for over the counter medicines but that's all.