# Doctors advertising

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-advertising/190230>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-advertising/190230 "2003-07-22T20:37:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susma\_Rio\_Sep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Susma\_Rio\_Sep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susma_Rio_Sep)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-advertising/190230/1 "2003-07-22T20:37:49Z")

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Are there laws against doctors advertising?

If drugs are allowed to be adveritised so that people would know what they are good for, and how good they are, and how economical they are; shouldn’t doctors be allowed to advertise also?

Wouldn’t allowing doctors to advertise enable people to know the really good doctors, bring their professional fees down, and eliminate the bad ones from practice?

Susma Rio Sep

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-advertising/190230/2 "2003-07-22T22:16:52Z")

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I see ads for doctors all the time. Most plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and podiatrists.