Direct-to-consumer marketing by pharmaceutical companies and the vast amount of health information available to patients on Web sites enable them to self-diagnose and self-prescribe and saves the physician time.

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Direct-to-consumer marketing and online health information can lead to self-diagnosis, but it often results in misinformation and misdiagnosis, potentially increasing the physician's workload to correct these errors.

Direct-To-Consumer Marketing by Pharmaceutical Companies and the Vast Amount of Health