Posted by MB on June 27, 2003, at 19:08:33
In reply to Re: you'll love this one, posted by Saltmarsh Rose on June 26, 2003, at 19:44:29
> One thing - at the very least the earlier print ads were seen by psychiatrists who actually spent a good amount of time with their patients, not like the 10 minutes if we are lucky...its easier for them to scribble out Rx for something if the patient asks for it...or incresingly, easier still, hand the patient a sample of the newer, patent med, because all the major pharms have salespeople supply them...
Yeah, the docs love handing out the patent meds (gotta earn that golf trip to Naples, Florida). A friend of mine worked at a clinic and she would bring me the cool pens that the pharmaceutical reps would hand out to the docs. I was glad for the gifts (those pens are cool!) and I was also glad for the "heads-up": the pens she brought me could be used to predict what medication I'd be walking out with the next time I visited the doctor!
Oh yeah, the last pdoc I saw charged $80 for 15 minute med reviews. We met once a month, so at least the cost wasn't *too* high...but with such sparse interaction with my doc, I would have been as well off if someone had handed me a script pad and a PDR and said, "have at it."
MB
ps. Dexamyl: why don't we get meds like this anymore? A speedball in a purple
pill shaped like a heart? Man, those were the days!
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