In article <slworkDEvno0.6Js at netcom.com> slwork at netcom.com (Steve Work) writes:
>From: slwork at netcom.com (Steve Work)
>Subject: Re: Unethical practices - drug industry
>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 04:12:00 GMT
>MAIKAI (maikai at aol.com) wrote:
>: Were they MontBlanc or Waterman, by any chance? You mean you actually
>: bought your first stethoscope? (not a gift from a drug co?) Groan, you've
>: forced me to go through my stacks of literature........I'll give you the
>: "referrals" this weekend when I have more time. I did read that the docs
>: that were good customers tended to get the good stuff......so perhaps you
>: can't be bought..... and the drug reps could see that....and nowadays,
>: blatant expensive gifts are illegal...I do think the bogus study
>: reimbursements are still being done, though.
>Excuse me if this is a dumb question. But how do the drug companies know
>which doctors are "good" customers? Aren't what the doctor prescribes
>and who it's for kept confidential? What's to keep the doctor from
>taking all those expensive gifts, telling the rep he's prescribing their
>overpriced meds, and then giving his patients a generic alterntative
>which works just as well?
I do this all the time. Still all I get is those dumb pens.....(g)
Dr. P
