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Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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John Oliver examines how pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs directly to doctors to influence their prescribing habits.

Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues with that. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: Facebook.com/LastWeekTonight Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: Twitter.com/LastWeekTonight Visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: hbo.com/lastweektonight Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: Facebook.com/LastWeekTonight Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: Twitter.com/LastWeekTonight Visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: hbo.com/lastweektonight

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What people say. Recommended as a compelling and clear explanation of how pharmaceutical marketing influences medical prescribing practices.

DigitalSeain Hacker News • Recommends

On “The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up”

Both honestly and sadly, I think nobody is actually legitimately surprised by this. The pharmaceutical industry is a profit machine that will do anything to ensure that it remains profitable. If anyone hasn't seen John Oliver's latest video, it's on the whole marketing to doctors thing and touches upon the pharmaceutical industry and I highly recommend watching it: link to this video - he sums it up perfectly.
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ForHackernewsin Hacker News • Disputes

On “Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless”

I think many sex workers with personal standards would be insulted by your comparison with physicians, who seem to be happy to take money (not your money, I guess) to push drugs that may or may not actually help you0. 0 link to this video
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RaleyFieldin Hacker News • Mentions

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> Anti-vaccine movement comes from declining levels of trust in authorities. I'll just leave this relevant episode of Last Week Tonight( link to this video ). While anti-vaxxers are clearly wrong let's acknowledge that health care, at least in the US, has been partially corrupted. The thought that medical workers might be offering unsound advice in this one area when it's known they behaved unethically in that other area suddenly does not appear so unreasonable.
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brightballin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements”

There's a part of me that wants to agree completely...and there is another part that has concerns about the messenger. The end result of that would be that the gatekeeper to knowing about these drugs or devices are the doctor's themselves meaning those companies just have to work harder to advertise to the doctors to recommend their drug/device. From Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver: link to this video
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ddebernardyin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors”

Is this really news? John Oliver ran a piece on the topic and the industry's many other dubious practices over 2 years ago, and I'm quite sure he wasn't the first to try to raise awareness. link to this video
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