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Physicians who develop new treatments and new techniques have voluntarily accepted a professional ethic that they publish these findings for the use of all physicians in the treatment of all patients. If the FTC puts physicians in the position of price competition by destroying their ethical ban on advertising, they should expect that a physician who develops an effective new treatment will keep it a secret and sell it to the highest bidder rather than publish it for the use of all. I do not believe that to be a wise exchange...
...report showing the lengths to which the entertainment industry goes in marketing mayhem and sex to children under 17. Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, a longtime critic of the industry, vowed that if these companies don't change their selling practices, a Gore-Lieberman administration would give the FTC new enforcement powers and prosecute them for false advertising...
...against the record industry had got out of hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore was a member. "I was not in favor of the hearing," Gore said, according to a transcript leaked to Daily Variety. Last year, when the administration ordered the FTC study in the wake of the Columbine High School shootings, entertainment executives were furious at the prospect of being made scapegoats. As their contributions to Gore began drying up, Gore met with them privately in August 1999 and noted pointedly that the study (the same one he now touts...
Barnes' ruling must still be approved by the FTC commissioners, after which doctors will be able to start hiring copywriters. The A.M.A. will appeal the order. Dr. Robert B. Hunter, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, noted that the organization's code does not prohibit advertising, only solicitation of patients. The distinction: ads provide pertinent information such as type of practice, office hours, and even the schedule of fees; solicitation involves self-laudatory or fraudulent claims, or patients' testimonials. The prohibition, says the A.M.A., is meant to protect the public from unscrupulous hucksters...
...A.M.A. was particularly outraged by Barnes' order that future ethical guidelines first get the FTC O.K. Said Hunter: "There is no legal precedent in the United States for the federal bureaucracy to write or approve a code of ethics for any of the learned professions...