we already kind of get that with prescription drug adverts on the TV...."if you get ******* (symptoms) ask your doctor if ****** is right for you" so your point is kind of scary [/b][/quote]Originally posted by vidcc+10 April 2004 - 20:20--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (vidcc @ 10 April 2004 - 20:20)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-hobbes@10 April 2004 - 11:08
Imagine if doctors were to start a media blitz?
"Do you have a small cancer which might be curable if you get a whole body CT scan now? Can you afford not to you know? Can your family?" /cut scene to girl crying at Daddys funeral.
Drug companies are not doctors and anyway most of the ads say "if you feel like shit, ask your doctor if this drug may help", not "take this drug or you might just drop over dead".
What I find strange about some drug ads is that they never tell you just exactly what the drug is for. They never mention during the ad what is for, sour stomach, anxiety, depression, who knows?
Doctors are doing nothing to scare people, lawyers are filling the TV set and printed media with their "call to sue". There is no comparison.
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