Grab Drug Advertisements by the Pills: Part One
We begin the Grab Drug Advertisements by the Pills series by discussing how educational – and how confusing – drug advertisements can be.
Prescription drug advertisements are educational in that they often help people tune into and/or better understand a particular health condition. However, because most of us aren’t doctors, drug advertisements can confuse us. Some of us are out the door and headed to the doctor’s office before the commercial is even finished.
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Today kicks off Patient Safety Awareness Week, and what better way to help ensure patient safety than by becoming more active in your own health care? After all, you are the patient, right?
Of course you are. We’re all patients at one point or another.
In honor of Patient Safety Awareness Week, I’m going to do a series on one of – if not the – most in-your-face elements of the health care world today: Drugs. Pills. Pharmaceuticals. Medicine. Dope. Prescriptions. Whatever you want to call them.
But more specifically, the advertisements for drugs, pills, pharmaceuticals, medicine…OK, you get the idea.
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