No! The doctor should be telling me about drugs. And only because they actually might fix what’s wrong, not because they’ll get a kick-back for shoving pills at me.
Kickback thing is kinda a reason to keep the ads tbh… Plenty of docs will 100% insist that the best med for something is whatever brand is plastered all over their calendar, calculator, desk toys, office decorations, etc…
Having ads kinda gives people options their doc wont mention because kickbacks.
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No! The doctor should be telling me about drugs. And only because they actually might fix what’s wrong, not because they’ll get a kick-back for shoving pills at me.
Kickback thing is kinda a reason to keep the ads tbh… Plenty of docs will 100% insist that the best med for something is whatever brand is plastered all over their calendar, calculator, desk toys, office decorations, etc…
Having ads kinda gives people options their doc wont mention because kickbacks.
Or, you know, make both illegal.
We should ban that shit, too.