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.
As a European this mindset sounds completely insane to me. If my doctor tried to goad me into treatment with his sponsored products, I’d be looking for a new doctor and put the medical ethics oversight on their ass.
A doctor has to provide you with the correct treatment choice, not whatever he gets paid the most for.
I assure you the doctor both recommends what they think will be effective and plug what is being sold. Pharmaceutical market absolutely exists in the EU.
Yeah that’s the compromise we make with public healthcare supplied by private companies. But I am still confident that any doctor will suggest the best treatment, and not the cheapest or best reimbursed. They might consider that too, but only after establishing the proper treatment.
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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.
As a European this mindset sounds completely insane to me. If my doctor tried to goad me into treatment with his sponsored products, I’d be looking for a new doctor and put the medical ethics oversight on their ass.
A doctor has to provide you with the correct treatment choice, not whatever he gets paid the most for.
I assure you the doctor both recommends what they think will be effective and plug what is being sold. Pharmaceutical market absolutely exists in the EU.
Yeah that’s the compromise we make with public healthcare supplied by private companies. But I am still confident that any doctor will suggest the best treatment, and not the cheapest or best reimbursed. They might consider that too, but only after establishing the proper treatment.
We should ban that shit, too.