Comments on: "Without drug reps, we’d have the meeting in the basement of some hospital" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/without-drug-reps-wed-have-meeting-in.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/without-drug-reps-wed-have-meeting-in.html#comment-73261 Anonymous Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/without-drug-reps-we%e2%80%99d-have-the-meeting-in-the-basement-of-some-hospital.html#comment-73261 This is one of the reasons that I stopped participating in organized psychiatry. I thought it was just cheesy when their name was all over everything, but as time went on, I began to see ever greater, undue and improper influence on the practice through aggresive marketing, concealing data, and a barrage or marketing concealed as educational programs.<br/><br/>I start showing up at meetings when they are in the basement of the hosptial, and I pay for my own food. Until, I will read my journals (always wary of pharma sponsorship) and get my required CME by paying for in non pharma sponsored programs. This is one of the reasons that I stopped participating in organized psychiatry. I thought it was just cheesy when their name was all over everything, but as time went on, I began to see ever greater, undue and improper influence on the practice through aggresive marketing, concealing data, and a barrage or marketing concealed as educational programs.

I start showing up at meetings when they are in the basement of the hosptial, and I pay for my own food. Until, I will read my journals (always wary of pharma sponsorship) and get my required CME by paying for in non pharma sponsored programs.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/without-drug-reps-wed-have-meeting-in.html#comment-73245 Anonymous Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/without-drug-reps-we%e2%80%99d-have-the-meeting-in-the-basement-of-some-hospital.html#comment-73245 Hmm. Dr pho, it seems to me you are perhaps misrepresenting the gist of her post here.<br/><br/>Dr NoFreeLunch Hmm. Dr pho, it seems to me you are perhaps misrepresenting the gist of her post here.

Dr NoFreeLunch

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