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Telling your doctor about TV medications

RedMF40

RedMF40

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Was wondering if anyone tells their doctor about the meds they've seen advertised on tv? And what does the doctor have to say? After a long break from watching tv, I notice an abundance of different medications for various conditions--most I've never heard of. But I start to itch after some of the ads LOL.

I think it used to be that a rep from the drug company would come around and talk to the doctor about the different benefits of the pills or whatever they were selling. Then the doctor would retain some of this information and hopefully remember it when prescribing a treatment. Nowadays seems like the patient is the salesman.
 
The med salesman (super model women mostly) still go around to the doctors and hock their wares. I've read that a lot of doctors get some kick
backs for recommending certain medications. Those TV commercials just kill me. First, I find it odd that during the evening news the only thing
they seem to advertise is cars and drugs. Did you ever listen to the side effects of most of the drugs on those commercials? All I can think of
is if those are the drugs that made it through the patient trials, what the heck did the rejected drugs do to people?

When those Shingles commercials first started appearing I asked my doctor about it. He just chuckled and said the ads must be working. He went on
to say the Shingles thing was way over blown. Funny... a year later I go for an annual check up and suddenly they are pushing the Shingles nnalert
hard. I guess the drug women got to them.
 
Our family doctor used to save my wife and I a lot of money by giving us samples of medications the "Detail Men" left with him. His wife once complained to me that just once she'd like to get a prescription and have it filled like a "normal" patient, instead of just getting free samples the detail men had left.

You have to realize, though, during this era our family doctor was a water skiing buddy of mine and my wife was a receptionist for four other doctors, so our medical care wasn't quite as formal as with the general public.

If you read the fine print on some of the stuff that's being advertised on TV, the side effects are worse than the ailment they're trying to cure. If I was a doctor, there's no way I'd give any of that stuff to a patient without a hell of a lot of research.
 
Read an interesting article about drug sales selection process. Seems the most fertile hunting ground for candidates is......College cheerleaders. For there attitude, personally, and I'm sure, other attributes
 
In the past couple of months I've been getting a lot of e-mail adds for S type drugs.
Wish I could make them go away.
 
Always figured if my Doctor didn't know
more about the medicine I need than I do I
had better find a different Doctor.
 
I had to go see the Dr. about a bad cut on my hand. While I was there I said I'm suppose to ask you if (Estraderm) is right for me. He started laughing and said you know what that for menopause. told him I saw it on tv. He said I wish they wouldn't put that stuff on there.
 
If the tractor dealers hired cheerleaders to sell tractors, I might be using a John Deere and be single!SERIOUSLY<p
Someone mentioned kickbacks from the drug companies. I personally know one young doctor who was part of a $ 175 Million. now he is doing time and had no medical license.
 
If the tractor dealers hired cheerleaders to sell tractors, I might be using a John Deere and be single!SERIOUSLY

Someone mentioned kickbacks from the drug companies. I personally know one young doctor who was part of a $ 175 Million. now he is doing time and had no medical license.
 

TROUBLE IS... they start out saying.

are you feeling tired?
do you have a lack of energy?
do you have a lot of pain?
do you have trouble getting up.
do you have indigestion,
yada
yada
yada



After watching these commercials, I have decide that I must have.....

Just about every disease out there. After all I have at least 5 of the 6 or 7 symptoms.
 
You better believe they do!

And the Dr. is afraid to tell them no, because the patient will just find a Dr. that will!

I can only imaging how many patients have already diagnosed themselves with the internet, decided what medication they need, then proceed to tell the Dr. how to treat them!

No wonder Dr's no longer get personal with their patients, they probably can't stand the majority of them! LOL
 
Have you ever wondered how they come up with the names or these drugs. It's almost like they just throw some letters together and go with it.
I also noticed they change the name of the drug after the patent runs out. Try to make it look like something new.
 
" hey Doc I wanna be on that drug from the TV commercial" A comedian said doesn't that just make your doctor your drug dealer?
 
If you think there are a lot of drugs out there to cure our ills, check your Formulary from your insurance co. I use Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for my Rx
and there are 107 pages at 50 drugs per page. Will admit that some are duplications whereby the different doses are listed since we are talking about what
the ins will pay for and what they won't.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's say there are only 30 varieties per page X 107 pages......Big nnalert???????? Wink.
 
What cracks me up is they advertise how good a drug is and then spend the other half of the commercial telling how it can kill you. I'm sure the doctor already knows about the drugs on TV and whether there is any merit to them or whether it's just hype.
 
my stepdaughter called Mrs. 730 all in a panic she told her mom I think I have prostate cancer after Mrs 730 stopped laughing she told Meghan you don't have prostate cancer. Meghan told her Mom I have all the signs.
Mrs. 730 told Meghan well to start with you don't have a prostate. Then Mrs. 730 told Meghan turn off the TV, face book and the internet.
 
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