Re:Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in ...
by matheusmoreira on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:55PM
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> It seems like there are quite a lot of relatives/family members of doctors on HN.
Lots of actual doctors on HN. It's true, pharmaceutical companies do market directly to doctors. The most positive form of marketing for patients is when they provide doctors with free samples of drugs they were going to prescribe anyway.
In my country generic drugs are not always the most reliable option and having more trustworthy alternatives really helps. This isn't drug marketing speaking either, there have been actual newsworthy scandals involving "mismanagement" of taxpayer money meant to pay for the production of basic hypertension drugs.
Lots of actual doctors on HN. It's true, pharmaceutical companies do market directly to doctors. The most positive form of marketing for patients is when they provide doctors with free samples of drugs they were going to prescribe anyway.
In my country generic drugs are not always the most reliable option and having more trustworthy alternatives really helps. This isn't drug marketing speaking either, there have been actual newsworthy scandals involving "mismanagement" of taxpayer money meant to pay for the production of basic hypertension drugs.