Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients.
I can imagine that there are many people with lesser known diseases who only got tested for them because they saw a commercial for a drug for it and thought “hey that sounds exactly like me!”
Buuuuuut these cases would be much better served by a campaign to make knowledge of diseases more readily available through dr office pamphlets, posters, PSAs, etc than commercials by for-profit prescription drug lords.
I can imagine that there are many people with lesser known diseases who only got tested for them because they saw a commercial for a drug for it and thought “hey that sounds exactly like me!”
Buuuuuut these cases would be much better served by a campaign to make knowledge of diseases more readily available through dr office pamphlets, posters, PSAs, etc than commercials by for-profit prescription drug lords.