My doctor gets pharma reps all the time. They are quite hot, and the wall of his checkout area is full of brochures and coupons for the latest drugs.

Which is why whenever he tries to prescribe me something and gives me a brochure or coupon, I immediately ask if there is a generic drug that can do the same thing.

 

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They hire a 22 year old sales rep with big tits and DSLs (dick suckin' lips) for two reasons:

1) because it's a lot cheaper to get a 22 year old freshout into the sales business than a 35 year old with 12 years of experience, and see how they do in it before they find out how fkn brutal it is and that if they aren't really good at it, they make siht for money... and

2) because if it comes down to prescribing company A's 3% drug or company B's 3% drug, yes, those companies want the Dr. to choose their drug, and all other things being equal, the Dr. may or may not choose a given company's drug, but again, there is oversight to ensure that physicians aren't inappropriately prescribing drugs.





I very seriously doubt that.





Dude, no marketing is benign, it's about competition. If a drug doesn't have an effect, it doesn't get approved. If it doesn't have as much of an effect or the risk/benefit ratio is not better than what the physician is currently using, they aren't going to suddenly put their patients on a new therapy that will be less effective and give them more side effects just because some sales rep bought them a fkn steak or a trip to Florida.





What they do is legal. There are laws around it, there is oversight. As for the "legal context", I want to know which legal context you're speaking about:

Are you talking about the legal context where you're subject to the whim of a judge unless you have the money to hire attorneys to file appeals against their capricious verdicts, or are you talking about the legal context wherein a wealthy party can indefinitely delay justice until their legal opponents run out of funding or time or both?

 

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Your insurance company should be asking this. If you are uninsured, you are wise to ask of course and your pharmacist also should be able to provide a generic equivalent in a lot of situations as well.

 

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Uh huh. They pick the young hot woman because she's cheaper to hire than the young not-hot woman. And all the marketing is just to get them to prescripe your version of the drug and not someone else's. Because no doctor would be influenced in any other way. And influencing them to prescribe your drug, when they would otherwise choose a cheaper one, is totally fine and totally different than influencing them to precsribe a drug that they wouldn't otherwise prescribe, which no doctor would ever do.


I guess you have to do what you have to do to live. Working for pharma that may require you to be willfully blind about what your company actualyl does to ship units.

ROFL.

Again, you assume to be more savvy than the FDA and the IRBs that oversee clinical trials and more savvy than practicing physicians because Michael Moore told you so...

 

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I am sure that there is overprescription of drugs in America, and I am sure that Pharma is pushing it, but I'm also sure that just like a lot of other things being blown out of proportion, it's not as widespread as you think it is.

Bear in mind that Pharma and Insurance are the #1 and #2 biggest lobbies in Washington. Every few years they flipflop positions as far as I've been told.

Every argument FOR Pharma has at least the same anti-Pharma argument coming from the insurance companies.

In the end, the bottom line is that life expectancy is increasing, quality of life is increasing, and BOTH Pharma and Insurance companies are doing very well.

Oh and I forgot... the law firms representing each side are ALSO doing very well...

 

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But the gubmint is an expert on this stuff! They must be doing everything right. And there's no way doctors would ever overprescribe anything because then they would be sued! I learned all that from you just 5 minutes ago. I even tatooed it on my arm. WHAT HAS CHANGED!?!?!!?

There there little buddy, it will all work itself out in the end.

 

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I'm not crying. I'm ecstatic. Now I know I never have to worry about a doctor ever prescribing me something I didn't need. And I never need to worry that any of the pharma products advertised on TV might not really be as awesome as they sound. Everyone is just working in my best interests at every turn. And it's just a coincidence that sales rep is hot and wearing revealing clothing.