A former "drug whore" speaks

May 7, 2007

A psychiatrist has an epiphany:

A drug salesman chided him one day for showing “less enthusiasm for our product” than usual and “I had a kind of epiphany,” said Carlat, also on the faculty of the Tufts University School of Medicine. “I realized the obvious — that I was being paid to say good things about drugs, regardless of what my actual opinions were.”

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