<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 9, 2006, at 05.15, Andrew Hutchinson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 09/05/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Hutchinson</B> <<A href="mailto:ahutchinson.mythtv@googlemail.com">ahutchinson.mythtv@googlemail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV style="direction: ltr;"><BR><BR><DIV></DIV><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><SPAN class="q"><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 09/05/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Chad</B> <<A href="mailto:masterclc@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> masterclc@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > And the absolute worst is the advertising for prescription drugs. I<BR>> understand that only the USA permits this. I wonder why? It must<BR>> work, or they wouldn't keep doing it, and the thought of people<BR> > ingesting potentially hazardous drugson the basis of a TV ad really<BR>> scares me.<BR><BR>;) Did I mention I work in a Pharmacy?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>[snip]</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><SPAN class="q"><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Otherwise, they are simply saying<BR>"Hey moron, go tell your Doctor what he should be prescribing you"; <BR>and I don't understand the logic there...<BR><BR>Heh, stupid medicine.<BR><BR>Chad</BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><DIV><BR> <BR> It might not seem logical to you, but this form of advertising is very lucrative (and completely irresponsible) on the part of the drug company. The fact is people do go to the doctor and say "I need XXX drug for this" and a lot of doctors will prescribe it. This is especially the case when the drug companies make it known on the advert what symptoms their drugs are used for. <BR> <BR> One really bad case was "Adult ADD" which I saw while in America. It went along the lines of "Are you tired in the morning?", or "Do you have trouble concentrating for long periods of time?".. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing! This would never be allowed anywhere else. Anyway, it works, and in my opinion its a problem.<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I remember those, and I had the exact same reaction. Vaguely reminds me of these suicide warning sign pamphlets they had, and I went through one, and checked off everything that could be directly linked to I.B. (International Baccalaureate, kinda like AP). It was shocking how many there were.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><DIV style="direction: ltr;"><DIV> <BR> And trust me, they pay big money to market to the doctors too at the "luncheons" like you suggest.. its all a scam really. <BR> </DIV></DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> It might not seem logical to you, but this form of advertising is very lucrative (and completely irresponsible) on the part of the drug company. The fact is people do go to the doctor and say "I need XXX drug for this" and a lot of doctors will prescribe it. This is especially the case when the drug companies make it known on the advert what symptoms their drugs are used for. <BR> <BR> One really bad case was "Adult ADD" which I saw while in America. It went along the lines of "Are you tired in the morning?", or "Do you have trouble concentrating for long periods of time?".. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing! This would never be allowed anywhere else. Anyway, it works, and in my opinion its a problem.<BR> <BR> And trust me, they pay big money to market to the doctors too at the "luncheons" like you suggest.. its all a scam really. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This reminds me of a Science Friday I listened to, where they talked about drug advertisements. It was actually pretty relevant to this discussion (now if the discussion were relevant to the thread ;)</DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>