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Prescription Drug Ads – Your Help Needed

1 Comment / Health /Medical Consumerism, Healthcare Quality, Media, Medical Errors / Mistakes / Misdiagnosis, Patient Empowerment, Patient Safety, Patient Tools, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Politics and Medicine

What do you think of those prescription ads you see on TV, in magazines, newspapers and other places? Do you think they are helpful? Do you get frustrated because you know you can’t purchase those drugs directly anyway? Did you go to your doctor to ask about one of them? Do you think they are […]

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Disapprove of Drug Ads? Suffered Adverse Events? Do Something About Them!

Health /Medical Consumerism, Healthcare Quality, Media, Patient Empowerment, Pharmaceutical Drugs

I’ve told you before about one of my patient advocacy colleagues, Kim Witzcak. Kim’s husband, Woody, a vibrant, successful, energetic young man, committed suicide after being prescribed a drug to help him sleep. Since figuring out the basis for Woody’s complete change of personality — Zoloft — Kim has since campaigned to make the world

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