Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Founding Father (ff_at_qwest.net)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:34:33 -0700

"Lictor" <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote in message
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> "George Conklin" <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > > Which is why many countries have a ban on advertising drugs outside of
> > > specialized magazines. Seeing all the ads for various drugs (mainly
> AIDS)
> > > was quite a surprise while visiting the USA, and actually quite a
> shocking
> > > one.
> >
> > Why were you shocked?
>
> It just felt terribly wrong, it's hard to pinpoint exactly why. What I
felt
> was around the lines of immoral, unethical, obscene. I mean, ads telling
me
> how great it is to live with AIDS while on drug X, and that you are able
to
> climb mountains and all, do feel obscene to me. A subway station is not
the
> place to take decisions on a matter of such vital importance as to what
drug
> you will litterally bet your life on if you have AIDS. That's a decision
> that should be taken in the privacy of a doctor's office, with the
> counselling of a *neutral* practitionner. These ads negate that special
> relationship. They're trying to sell life and death like they would sell
> chocolate bars or soap. And knowing to what level of disinformation the
food
> industry can go to sell products, I can't help but wonder at the quality
and
> neutrality of the information in drug ads.
> It felt just as wrong as ads for tobacco or alcohol products, another
thing
> we have a ban on.

How about all the ambulance chaser ads?

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