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It seems like every time I turn on the television or open a magazine, I see them: ads for prescription drugs. They are everywhere. The medications are for any ailment or disease imaginable and the side effects that are listed seem to go on forever. It's nice to know there are prescriptions out th...
If you have heard George's frequent guest Wilde, discussing how certain senators are even trying to get a bill passed to limit pharmaceutical companies from their "over the top" ads as they take their sales pitch to the patients.
The health author explained, that we (the public) are being cleverly manipulated by the drug companies to indirectly become salesmen for their product to our physicians. He said, not only are we being used to pressure our doctors to prescribe the drugs but the high cost of the millions in additional TV advertising is passed to us as well, adding insult to injury.