Posted by laima on January 7, 2007, at 18:43:44
In reply to Re: zyprexa pens, posted by med_empowered on January 7, 2007, at 18:11:53
Not sure about the vacations- I too remember reading that the practice would be stopped, but don't know if that's in effect yet or not. Doctors also get to discuss the meds over lunch with the company, social outings with the company to golf courses--all kinds of stuff. "Business lunch". I wonder where they will draw the line? Didn't the govt or some officials somewhere come up with a proposed monetary cap for the perks just recently? 25$ sounds familiar- I can't remember for sure. Did this pass during the Bush era, or did I dream it up?
But the marketers are sly- I went to a gastroenterologist after lamictal messed with my rather sensitive stomache, and she had a prevacid prescription pad. All she had to do was write my name on it and sign it (with a Prevacid pen). So easy! There was a poster from Prevacid showing the throat and stomache and their ailments on the wall. She sent me out the door with a couple Prevacid goody-bags, and I never filled the prescription. Besides the Prevacid pills, there were Prevacid lozenges in it, along with an advert letting me know I had a choice of flavours: orange or strawberry. My stomache is fine now. But ah- what about Protonix, Nexium, the rest? I always wondered if she ever got a patient who was not a good candidate for Prevacid.
> can docs still get vacations for rx-ing enough of something? I was hoping that practice had stopped.
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> Samples are pretty crazy...docs have samples for **everything**. I remember once I said no to some Symbyax samples; my doc gave me a puzzled look and walked off for a second, and then came back with a bag full of Tofranil-PM samples. Tofranil-PM?!?
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> Another time, my shrink wanted me to try depakote ER--so she gave me a stock bottle, just like they'd have in the back of the pharmacy.
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