Comments on: Desperate Pfizer going with ads to save failing Exubera http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/desperate-pfizer-going-with-ads-to-save.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/desperate-pfizer-going-with-ads-to-save.html#comment-72158 Anonymous Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:46:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/desperate-pfizer-going-with-ads-to-save-failing-exubera.html#comment-72158 Providers should quit being hypocrites! Don't we welcome those reps and the drug companies they represent when we need sponsorship for CME, software/hardware, and occassional lunch treat for the office staff [that wont have to come out of our pockets]? The reps and DTC is not the root of the problem; its the economy and American/human hunger for the expensive best - even if its not affordable [it will implode somehow]. The REAL source of our headaches are not the reps...its the PBMs who work for their money by requiring prior authorizations and such; in other words, PBMs and Pharm "DOCTORs" - outstanding doctor wannabe's - who were smart enough not to go to medical school to face whining, unprofessional, downright uneducated and uneducable patients.PBMs practice without having to pay for professional liability, and make more than net of a lot of real doctors...they got it great dont they? Providers should quit being hypocrites! Don’t we welcome those reps and the drug companies they represent when we need sponsorship for CME, software/hardware, and occassional lunch treat for the office staff [that wont have to come out of our pockets]? The reps and DTC is not the root of the problem; its the economy and American/human hunger for the expensive best – even if its not affordable [it will implode somehow]. The REAL source of our headaches are not the reps…its the PBMs who work for their money by requiring prior authorizations and such; in other words, PBMs and Pharm “DOCTORs” – outstanding doctor wannabe’s – who were smart enough not to go to medical school to face whining, unprofessional, downright uneducated and uneducable patients.PBMs practice without having to pay for professional liability, and make more than net of a lot of real doctors…they got it great dont they?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/desperate-pfizer-going-with-ads-to-save.html#comment-72150 Anonymous Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/desperate-pfizer-going-with-ads-to-save-failing-exubera.html#comment-72150 I quite talking to drug reps several years ago. They don't "detail" products anymore, they sell them, with all the manipulation and distortion that go along with that. <br/><br/>If enough doctors locked them out and told them that they were tired of the DTC ads making their lives harder pushing people to want things they don't need, they might back off. I quite talking to drug reps several years ago. They don’t “detail” products anymore, they sell them, with all the manipulation and distortion that go along with that.

If enough doctors locked them out and told them that they were tired of the DTC ads making their lives harder pushing people to want things they don’t need, they might back off.

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