In <4349d5$u4k at rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> purcell at ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt
James Purcell) writes:
>>sbharris at ix.netcom.com (Steven B. Harris ) writes:
>>> Could you post the names of drug companies who give briefcases and
>>computers to doctors? Somehow I've always missed them and got
nothing
>>but the lousy pens.
>>> Left Out,
>>> Steve Harris, M.D.
>>Steve,
>>Perhaps you are working to hard and not seeing the right sales reps.
Last year
>every pharmacist where I work (abit in Canada) got an Italian Leather
>briefcase from the Claritin sales rep (cute little calculator and
>pen included). I've got pens and pads of paper coming out of my
>ears (as well as apo-tex socks, novo-pharm cookie jar, benedryl
>sweatshirt, Procotor and Gamble cassette holder case, etc, etc....)
>>I won't even mention the free pizza every month from the Abbott sales
rep,
>the dinners put on by Glaxo, ........
>>Michelle
>purcell at datanet.ab.ca (as of Sept 14/95)
>--
>purcell at nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca>University of Alberta,
>Edmonton, Alberta.
>
Maybe they give better stuff to pharmacists than just the front line
docs. Or maybe it is a Canadian thing. I have gotten my share of
free pizza lunches. I felt it my obligation to prescribe many an
expensive and dangerous drug for no particular reason afterwards, too,
or at least until I got hungry again. A Benedryl sweatshirt, eh? What
color? Does it have a dry-mouthed allegator on the tit, asleep?
Steve Harris, M.D.
