Posted by Alan on October 23, 2002, at 22:46:38
In reply to Re: Educate members. You can't police the internet., posted by wcfrench on October 23, 2002, at 21:34:43
> I think most members know that a pharm rep knows far less about a med than doctors, and to a greater extent, fellow patients do. As long as he is not giving direct orders on medication, his opinion or proof is welcome as anyone else's is. Don't you think anyone else on this board could find the info he has presented to us and pitch Lexapro? We make up our own mind, and listen to patients who have taken the medicine over a sales representative. It's not that difficult.
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> -Charlie===============================================
What do you mean? Many *doctors* are making their decisions based largely on info from pharm reps! That's part of the problem. Why do you think "face time" is the be all and end all in the business today? If doctors are indeed swayed by the cherry-picked test results, why then wouldn't suggestable psychological or psychiatric participants on PB be?Unfortunately pharm rep is indeed instructing how to medicate and from a from a self-claimed position of relative authority (consistently using Forest's own documented test results as evidence) and covering themselves by saying that their advice is based on contact with what a few doctor "friends" are telling them.
What? The docs that they've had face time with producing highly suggestable docs and PBabblers only their proprietary test results? Based on what? If individual responses are so highly idiosyncratic, why would this method of giving cookie-cutter corporate medical advice even be allowed? Has everyone lost it regarding the need for some degree of objectivity?
Why is it alright for a pharmrep to dispense medical advice to a suggestable group in need of psychological help? The people that come here aren't here to pass the time I suspect. They're here to hear personal stories about medications...not the same corporate line that docs get every day but in reconstituted "Goober-talk". And if it's in medspeak, the average joe on this board isn't going to know what the hell they're talking about anyway....technically just far enough above their heads to have the consumer collectively nod their heads in bewilderment and agreement?
Yes, I agree. It's not that difficult to figure what is really going on here.
Alan
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