When we lived in Seattle, my wife worked for a thriving gastro practice.
Pretty much every three weeks she and her colleagues were wined and dined by the Big Pharma reps at places like Ruth's Chris, and even more expensive restaurants.
Why do you think those Pfizer reps paid for a dozen or more healthcare workers to eat $100 steaks? Just generous like that?
I'm reminded of when my now 36 year old son was about 10. We were in the waiting room of our doctor, can't remember his issue but as we sat there a drug rep walked in carrying a little black bag with a particular drug name on it. He got right in to see the doctor, while the patients in the waiting room waited longer. Later on when we were with the doctor, he handed me samples of that very drug brought in by the drug rep. and suggested that the particular drug might help my son's problem. So I've been very aware of the drug rep-doctor relationship ever since that time. No trust.
When we lived in Seattle, my wife worked for a thriving gastro practice.
Pretty much every three weeks she and her colleagues were wined and dined by the Big Pharma reps at places like Ruth's Chris, and even more expensive restaurants.
Why do you think those Pfizer reps paid for a dozen or more healthcare workers to eat $100 steaks? Just generous like that?
I'm reminded of when my now 36 year old son was about 10. We were in the waiting room of our doctor, can't remember his issue but as we sat there a drug rep walked in carrying a little black bag with a particular drug name on it. He got right in to see the doctor, while the patients in the waiting room waited longer. Later on when we were with the doctor, he handed me samples of that very drug brought in by the drug rep. and suggested that the particular drug might help my son's problem. So I've been very aware of the drug rep-doctor relationship ever since that time. No trust.
I remember once that my wife called one of the Pharma reps for some more samples for an indigent patient of hers.
The Pharma Rep chided her to the effect that "I'll do it this time, but I haven't seen many purchases of this Rx from your practice."