Apparently not very much, though; as it's very widespread, and common.Originally Posted by NA4BH
About the only new "rule" I saw in the past 7 years, was the reps used to just wine and dine the docs. Now, they have to wine and dine the entire office.
I agree to an extent. The marketing campaign is abusive, i.e. "Ask your doctor about Meta-Foobar-A-Sil". Then patients come in demanding "Metafoobarasil" and get pissed at the doc if he doesn't write a script for it. However, a certain degree of direct patient markjeting isn't the worst thing.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Many of these seminars are invaluable inb explaining to doctors the benefits and contraindications of a particular pharmaceutical product. I have attended a couple seminars when I was working for a pharmaceutical company. They conveyed some very important info and potentially life saving info at these meetings. A lot of work, R&D, extensive testing and reporting along with intense quality control and quality ingredients goes into producing and selling pharmaceutical products. And, millions of people world wide owe their lives and well being to many of these products.
True, there are some negative practices, but, all in all we benefit highly from the hard, labour and intensive work done by the pharmaceutical industry.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
You left out Continuing Education hours that all medical staff have to get yearly to maintain their licenses. The big Pharms foot the bill to an extent.
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Only some of us benefit from it... Many of us are affected adversely by the "hard, labour and intensive work" done by the pharmaceutical industry.
Do you have to talk to Jethro to buy that??? :rofl:
Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
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