Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
May 04, 2021•51 min•Ep. 367
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Episode description
For MaxFunDrive 2021, Sawbones is talking about gross medicine of a different sort. In the United States (and New Zealand) we see a lot of those commercials for prescription medicines with jaunty names and a full minute disclaimer at the end. How they came to be the norm here is a complicated history of bad medicine and the shifting of credence among doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies.
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Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers
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