Healthcare advertising, oh how the rules have changed.
Maybe it’s the New Year that making me nostalgic, maybe it’s my upcoming wedding … not sure exactly, but something has got me reminiscing. Funny that during this time, I saw an influx on Twitter about old-school advertisements, and ran by a nice photo homage dedicated to vintage healthcare ads. Looking through the images, I am amazed to see how much the healthcare advertising rules have changed. Take this ad for example:
The copy reads, “For prompt control of senile agitation. Thorazine. Thorazine can control the agitated, belligerent senile and help the patient to have a composed and useful life. Can you imagine being a pharmaceutical company and running this print ad now? The AARP would be outraged!
Not sure if the changes are good or bad though, I feel like now as healthcare marketers, we have to walk such a fine line. What do you think?











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Tue, 02/02/2010 - 5:26pm
is this still available?
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 8:54am
I believe so...
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