[Shermy]

How are consumers supposed to know which drugs are best?

By watching television commercial campaigns indoctrinating us as to what expensive drugs to demand from our doctors.

[Black Agnes]

Let the buyer beware. I don't feel sorry for people who are tricked into demanding expensive and unnecessary drugs from their doctors. I blame them, and their doctors for being patsy's. OTOH, if you don't know what drugs are out there, what protection do YOU have from unscrupulous doctors who prescribe drugs (regardless of their benefit to you) from companies they've invested in? Or, just prescribe what was the norm when they were in medical school umpteen years ago. Car companies advertise, food companies advertise...pharma companies weren't allowed to advertise at all till some law got changed in '96.