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Veilex

(1,555 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2014, 05:19 PM Oct 2014

Drug companies - "We have to educate doctors"...
combined with:

"We are the only western industrialized nation that allows pharmaceutical commercials on television"

Equals incentivized Doctors trying to sell drugs on TV... I'm sure there's no conflict of interest there. Right?

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Drug Companies Are Paying Doctors HOW Much!? [View all] Veilex Oct 2014 OP

I dislike ads for hospitals, too. malthaussen Oct 2014 #1

Indeed! Veilex Oct 2014 #3

Pharmaceutical commercials are way out of control Nictuku Oct 2014 #2

Some people see drug ads and think they have the disease Warpy Oct 2014 #4

No kidding! Veilex Oct 2014 #5