Further to that, I won't say that there is not advertising of medications to physicians, but the vast majority of medications that physicians prescribe have not been advertised to them. It's standard medical practice to review the medical literature and make your decision based on that, not because of advertising. A very, very small proportion of the drugs that I ever prescribed in 20 years of practice were made available to me from advertising.
On February 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.