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Originally Posted by aephi alum
It's not just the OB/GYNs. The reps think they can buy off the doctors (of any specialty) in a practice or a hospital for the price of providing some free bagels for the doctors' morning meeting.
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But...do patients really think this impacts our decision making? The free bagels are a great way to hold my attention for five minutes while a rep tells me about a new drug I might not have heard of yet, and if I have patients who would benefit from that drug, then that's great. On the other hand, if you think that as your doctor I'm either stupid enough or unethical enough to be swayed into giving you an inappropriate medication because a rep offered me coffee or bagels, instead of using my decade of medical education to make clinically sound decisions, shouldn't you find another doctor?
(I realize the federal government thinks we are too incompetent to be trusted with anything provided by a pharmaceutical company, lest it sway us into becoming slaves to Big Pharma because we were given a pen with a drug name on it. The federal government also runs the VA, and we all saw how that turned out.)