Bob Hill Summarizes Medical Advertising
Television January 3rd, 2007
Bob Hill of the Louisville Courier-Journal has an excellent column online that details the problems with the pharmaceutical industry advertising on television. Of his main points, Mr. Hill points out the following 1) The sexual aid ads aren’t exactly family friendly, 2) They seem to dispense medical advice and then prompt the consumer to seek out medical advice and 3) They actually can make people imagine they’re sick with something they’re not. Hill often mentions that he actually did some research on the claims made about the drugs or just on their general background, something that everyone should be doing before bursting into their doctor’s office demanding drugs for a problem they don’t have.



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