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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8877223" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>The ads DON’T improve overall self-advocacy; they provide the <em>illusion</em> of it. (IMHO, of course.)</p><p></p><p>Even without knowing the names of this drug, treatment or pharmaceutical, you are always free to ask <strong>“What other options are there?” </strong>Or to seek a second opinion. Telling your MD your concerns about side-effects or lack of efficacy are also key in the doctor/patient relationship, and doesn’t require naming brands.</p><p></p><p>(A HCP might not LISTEN to a patient’s reports & complaints. But if that’s true, they probably won’t listen to suggestions for alternative treatments, either.)</p><p></p><p>The ads, OTOH, get people seeking advice already armed with this or that name brand drug or particular therapy that at not even be relevant. Even before the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin debacles during COVID, MD’s complained about people demanding antibiotics for things like colds & flu, sometimes to the point of threatening to leave the practice if they didn’t get the prescription asked for. A lot of MDs handed out the prescriptions on the theory that it wouldn’t hurt the patients (probably) and would let them continue to engage & properly treat the patients after the antibiotics proved ineffective.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, this led to the unfortunate societal side-effect of overprescribing antibiotics, which reduced their overall effectiveness and contributed to the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. So under current guidelines for antibiotics, that practice has been greatly reduced so that sometimes patients get refused certain antibiotics <em>even if they’re effective for a patient’s affliction</em>, if the affliction is minor but chronic.</p><p></p><p>(I’m one taking it for Team Humanity.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8877223, member: 19675"] The ads DON’T improve overall self-advocacy; they provide the [I]illusion[/I] of it. (IMHO, of course.) Even without knowing the names of this drug, treatment or pharmaceutical, you are always free to ask [B]“What other options are there?” [/B]Or to seek a second opinion. Telling your MD your concerns about side-effects or lack of efficacy are also key in the doctor/patient relationship, and doesn’t require naming brands. (A HCP might not LISTEN to a patient’s reports & complaints. But if that’s true, they probably won’t listen to suggestions for alternative treatments, either.) The ads, OTOH, get people seeking advice already armed with this or that name brand drug or particular therapy that at not even be relevant. Even before the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin debacles during COVID, MD’s complained about people demanding antibiotics for things like colds & flu, sometimes to the point of threatening to leave the practice if they didn’t get the prescription asked for. A lot of MDs handed out the prescriptions on the theory that it wouldn’t hurt the patients (probably) and would let them continue to engage & properly treat the patients after the antibiotics proved ineffective. Unfortunately, this led to the unfortunate societal side-effect of overprescribing antibiotics, which reduced their overall effectiveness and contributed to the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. So under current guidelines for antibiotics, that practice has been greatly reduced so that sometimes patients get refused certain antibiotics [I]even if they’re effective for a patient’s affliction[/I], if the affliction is minor but chronic. (I’m one taking it for Team Humanity.) [/QUOTE]
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