Comments on: Drug reps on doctors: "Everybody has a price" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78480 Anonymous Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78480 It depends on the area. The drug reps are pretty irritating; they really have nothing to offer and their hamhanded attempts at ingratiation/manipulation just make me sad. These days most of them tend to be fresh out of college and their Pfizer how-to-ingratiate script is all too easily read.<br/><br/>The equipment companies are better - obviously it's a little harder to influence buying decisions for that. Sadly they're practically the only way to get educational things funded these days. We've got a pretty good relationship with one of the big companies and the reps are good about helping us send people back and forth for preceptorships to learn new techniques. The hospital is really the one with all the buying power anyway, so I just smile and nod. It depends on the area. The drug reps are pretty irritating; they really have nothing to offer and their hamhanded attempts at ingratiation/manipulation just make me sad. These days most of them tend to be fresh out of college and their Pfizer how-to-ingratiate script is all too easily read.

The equipment companies are better – obviously it’s a little harder to influence buying decisions for that. Sadly they’re practically the only way to get educational things funded these days. We’ve got a pretty good relationship with one of the big companies and the reps are good about helping us send people back and forth for preceptorships to learn new techniques. The hospital is really the one with all the buying power anyway, so I just smile and nod.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78477 Anonymous Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:05:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78477 Anon 5:04 has got soem SERIOUS Daddy issues... Anon 5:04 has got soem SERIOUS Daddy issues…

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78455 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78455 Why I don't talk to drug reps any more. It isn't that they are bad people, just that they are really just sales people and are more and more just manipulating, not "detailing". I hate being sold.<br/><br/>And the samples were just training my patients to beg. Why I don’t talk to drug reps any more. It isn’t that they are bad people, just that they are really just sales people and are more and more just manipulating, not “detailing”. I hate being sold.

And the samples were just training my patients to beg.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78449 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78449 Wait! You mean that the minor deities are ***gasp*** just like the rest of us! Oh no! Wait! You mean that the minor deities are ***gasp*** just like the rest of us! Oh no!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78447 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78447 From the article:<br/><br/>"To establish the identity of the prescribing doctors, pharmaceutical companies rely on the American Medical Association (AMA), which maintains a Physician Masterfile on every U.S. physician. Citing the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors wrote, "In 2005, database product sales, including an unknown amount from licensing Masterfile information, provided more than $44 million to the AMA."<br/><br/>Thanks for reminding me why I will never be a member of the AMA again. From the article:

“To establish the identity of the prescribing doctors, pharmaceutical companies rely on the American Medical Association (AMA), which maintains a Physician Masterfile on every U.S. physician. Citing the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors wrote, “In 2005, database product sales, including an unknown amount from licensing Masterfile information, provided more than $44 million to the AMA.”

Thanks for reminding me why I will never be a member of the AMA again.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has.html#comment-78442 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/drug-reps-on-doctors-everybody-has-a-price.html#comment-78442 I nominate this item for the first annual DUH! Award I nominate this item for the first annual DUH! Award

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