Posted by rvanson on November 27, 2007, at 0:51:50
In reply to NY Times article - 'Dr. Drug Rep', posted by jrbecker76 on November 26, 2007, at 15:03:38
> Of course, the lot of us are pretty well-seasoned in knowing just how much power the pharm industry wields over the medical community, but the extent of it - evident from this article - is still quite astonishing. For instance, I was floored to find out that pharm reps have extensive information on a particular doctor's prescribing rates for every drug in a category.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/magazine/25memoir-t.html?em&ex=1196226000&en=14f86674a4b9bfd7&ei=5087%0AYeap, and they were constantly in the waiting room of my last Pdoc, back when they were "pushing" Abilify on unipolar depressives like me, off label, making his patients wait even longer to see the Phd pill-pushing dealer.
Nothing in this article surprises me one iota.
Bye-bye, doctor "quack" (name withheld) !!!
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