Doctors Want To Pull Drug Ads From TV and Magazines

BuzzFeed - Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how the American Medical Association called for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices. "Drugs aren't like everything else, people don't need to be sold on the newest and brightest drug," says Schwartz. "People need to be educated on the benefits and harms, but that's not what drug ads do." (Similar coverage in Business Insider and MedCityNews.)