In addition, at pharma meetings with their sales reps, big pharma hires hundreds of doctors throughout the country to attend these meetings. Their purpose is to listen to the tailored sales pitches of the sales reps at the meetings. Afterwards, the doctors grade them.

This is overtly absurd so we, as sales reps, would often drink copious amounts of adult beverages at such meetings due to the psychotic protocols implemented by big pharma.

With Andy and BMS, he spoke out about his experience only after BMS decided not to be in collusion with him anymore. So Andy’s authenticity and credibility cannot be valid due to his Pavlovian extortion he now demonstrates. Yet the effects of Abifly, however, are accurate, I believe.

I guess it would be lazy of me to expect that I didn’t have to spend more than half of my patient contact time as a teacher, but that’s how I view myself. I am a teacher of medicine first. My students (and sometimes my best teachers) are my patients and we work together to wade through the BS and get them a treatment (drug or otherwise) that will work for them regardless of who or what says something works.

I just tell people, you are a population of ONE. Anything and everything that goes through you will be unique to you so let’s not waste time worrying HOW something works for someone else, let’s run the numbers, give “X” a try and see what works for YOU.

Patient-doctor trust is necessary in order to ensure that patients adhere to treatment plans. That trust is difficult enough to maintain without direct-to-consumer advertising muddling the perspectives of patients.