Share your ideas
There's a million ways to make medicine better and we want to hear them all. From the political arena of health care reform, to the personal world of what you want and need medicine to be, Share Your Ideas is where you talk and we listen. So, if you have an idea, a question, or advice on what the world of medicine needs to do in order to be better, please share it. And check back often to see if it becomes reality.
I have a problem when I see all the TV ads for medicine that you can not buy with out a prescription from your Dr. I have heard the drug companies spend upwards of 5 BILLION dollars a year on TV ads. Wouldn't that money be better used in research and lowering the cost of drugs. The ads say to ask your Dr. If I didn't trust my Dr. to know what was available and what was best for me, I'd find a new Dr. I'm not sure, but I think this is the only product advertised on TV that you can't just go out and buy.