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Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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What it is

A Last Week Tonight segment on how pharmaceutical companies spend billions marketing drugs to doctors. It uses comedy to lay out the industry's questionable practices.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as a reference in threads about pharma payments, medical corruption, and declining trust in healthcare.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend watching it”

    Oliver segment on pharma marketing to doctors.

    DigitalSea, 2015-02 · Strong recommendation · in “The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up”

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Topics: pharma, doctors, healthcare, john oliver, opioids

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