In the lecture, the professor asserts negative effects of drug advertisement.
This casts doubts on the reading passage's argument about benefits of medicine advertisement.
First of all, the lecturer maintains that since most drug advertisements do not offer enough information of side effects on their drug, patients are easily able to be cheated by the advertisements' exaggeration.
This contradicts the reading passage's statement that medicine advertisement will provide reliable information such as reaction to patients.
Secondly, the speaker highlights that a little knowledge of medicines from advertisement can be caused serious danger to patients' health. Self-treatment requires full responsibility of all reactions from medicine which patients order it themselves.
This rebuffs the reading passage's claim that patients would be able to prescribe themselves based on the medical knowledge through drug advertising.
Lastly, the professor indicates that newly medicines are not always the best. Even some of major drug companies persuade doctors with expensive presents to ask to prescribe more the companies' medicine. This opposes the reading passage's assertion that patients are allowed to select new medicine remedies independently by learning its drug through the advertisements. |