If you watch television, you're bound to have seen commercials for prescription medications. Magazines are also running an increasing number of ads for medications. This direct-to-consumer advertising tells us about medications for about any medical condition -- depression, Migraine disease, asthma, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, arthritis, and more. But, there is a debate about such advertising. Is it beneficial or detrimental?
Background:
USA TODAY, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a national survey regarding drug advertising. The results were interesting...
- Of patients who requested a prescription for a specific medication, 44% reported that their doctors prescribed the medication they requested.
- Just more than half of patients requesting a prescription for a specific medication reported that their doctors prescribed a different medication.
- Some doctors prescribed both the requested medication and a different one.
- With duplicate answers removed, the survey showed that 82% of patients were prescribed some medication.
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