Covid Vaccine

[Confluence]

They advertise because it's profitable, imagine that. With the advent of the internet hypochondriacs can google symptoms, check the TV ads then badger their physicians to prescribe it. At one time, 40-50 years ago, being a drug rep was an honorable profession, filled with people knowing their products. It quickly morphed into short skirts and little other than a smiling face. The providers in my facility dreaded them coming into the building.

Shorts skirts should not matter to MDs who's credo is "first do no harm" and who believe informed consent matters.

What percentage of MDs read package inserts for drugs they are professionally trained to prescribe?

 

[Confluence]

It's got to be an unfortunate situation to be a hypochondriac in the States these days with every other commercial pushing one drug or another.. Do other countries push drugs like we do?

only New Zealand allows pharma ads on the TeeVee.

 

[Stoney]

Real question.

If your job was not a consideration, and you had to choose one of these two for a lifelong friend, which would it be:

Covid shot
Or
An evening using cocaine

Well, I could probably use the cocaine to lure some chics, so....

 

[JMM]

only New Zealand allows pharma ads on the TeeVee.

That's weird. My wife and I went there on our honeymoon years ago and the country was extremely conservative. I remember reading about a case where a kid fell off a boardwalk and got hurt. The parents sued the city, township or whatever for not having appropriate fencing. The township found the parents guilty of child abuse for not keeping their kid out of danger. That's my kind of justice. Don't be a dumbass and you'll be alright. Act the fool, get hurt, you're an idiot and deserve to get hurt. Too stupid to keep an eye on your kid? Sorry kid, you're parents are idiots and you're on the short end of the stick. Darwin is a hell of a judge.