The hired gun

So who listens to pharmaceutical teleconferences? These are the equivalent of infomercials for physicians. Doing hundreds of these things means you are practicing medicine less than most all of the physicians you are selling to, so why would they listen? Free your mind, or are you just jealous? Look at how much celebrities are paid for their endorsements of products where they are not even experts.

People flock to these things. I have become so cynical however, about the lack of objectivities of these professional shills, that I seek out paid, non-pharmaceutical supported CME, and tune out the slick big name speakers altogether—especially if they say “In my experience . . . “

Most of them are so busy selling, they haven’t had any substantial experience in years.

It is just maybe a little less worse than physicians who whore themselves out to malpractice lawyers.

The biggest group of physician whores are those that continue to provide “services” and accept Medicare payments from the federal pimp (CMS) .