"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Drug Rep Malpractice: The makers of Neurontin, an anti-seizure drug, have been sending salespeople into exam rooms to influence doctor's prescribing. What kind of a doctor would go along with this? It's ludicrous to allow a salesman with no background in medicine beyond what he's memorized about his product to "advise" you on what to prescribe a patient. It's clearly a violation of patient confidentiality to allow a salesman to look at patient records and sit in on exams. These people aren't medical professionals, they're salesmen for crying out loud. posted by Sydney on
5/16/2002 07:29:00 AM
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