Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Lictor (ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE_at_online.fr)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:33:33 +0200

"George Conklin" <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:sXsXc.13795$2L3.13420@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > 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.

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