It should come as no surprise that there is a stunningly high rate of extremely attractive field reps for pharmacy, DME, and home health companies. So much so, that I am more surprised when i meet an unattractive field rep. Also unsurprising is that it seems the more attractive they are, the less knowledgeable they are about their product and neuroscience as a whole.
The tightened regulations on marketing expenses by big pharma is one of the few clauses in Obamacare with which I agreed. However, as a consequence (possibly intended) it causes reps to focus on large practices in high-density populations, while leaving small/solo practices and rural populations without the resources they need.
I cannot fathom how morally corrupt the entire pharmacy in question must have been. From the base nature of their product to the way they went about marketing. I didn't see it in the article, but I hope the doctor loses his license and is barred from practicing ever again.
Well that company certainly didn’t commit any Stark violations or anti-kickback laws, now did they! The physicians who partook in that are absolute morons! I hope they all go down. As far as the use of fentanyl for pain management, it has a most definitive appropriate place when a TRUE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL prescribed it appropriately. I can see benefit from having a calibrated spray form in a hospice situation, but only if the liquid can be visualized and counted so that diversion could be minimized. The doctors in this story are NOT PROFESSIONALS; they are quacks with a license. Hopefully not for long, though.
I once dated a girl whose dad was a doctor and pharmaceutical companies would send them to "conferences" on new products, which were basically just free vacations where the drs went to one seminar and that's it. I remember them going to Tahiti, and her dad used kickback money to get her a new car....
Some states have pretty strict laws on opioids now....
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It should come as no surprise that there is a stunningly high rate of extremely attractive field reps for pharmacy, DME, and home health companies. So much so, that I am more surprised when i meet an unattractive field rep. Also unsurprising is that it seems the more attractive they are, the less knowledgeable they are about their product and neuroscience as a whole.
The tightened regulations on marketing expenses by big pharma is one of the few clauses in Obamacare with which I agreed. However, as a consequence (possibly intended) it causes reps to focus on large practices in high-density populations, while leaving small/solo practices and rural populations without the resources they need.
I cannot fathom how morally corrupt the entire pharmacy in question must have been. From the base nature of their product to the way they went about marketing. I didn't see it in the article, but I hope the doctor loses his license and is barred from practicing ever again.
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Well that company certainly didn’t commit any Stark violations or anti-kickback laws, now did they! The physicians who partook in that are absolute morons! I hope they all go down. As far as the use of fentanyl for pain management, it has a most definitive appropriate place when a TRUE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL prescribed it appropriately. I can see benefit from having a calibrated spray form in a hospice situation, but only if the liquid can be visualized and counted so that diversion could be minimized. The doctors in this story are NOT PROFESSIONALS; they are quacks with a license. Hopefully not for long, though.
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I once dated a girl whose dad was a doctor and pharmaceutical companies would send them to "conferences" on new products, which were basically just free vacations where the drs went to one seminar and that's it. I remember them going to Tahiti, and her dad used kickback money to get her a new car....
Some states have pretty strict laws on opioids now....
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