Quotes about Pharmaceutical Reps from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "In 2005, a physician could make $750 to $2,000 for a thirty-minute speech, while some doctors demanded far more. pharmaceutical reps complained in private that some physicians could not get enough of these corporate handouts. A sales rep in New Jersey told me in 2003 that a physician on his rounds was giving talks on ten different prescription products and demanding $1,500 a speech. "Doctors are corrupt," he grumbled. "They say, If you hire me as a speaker, I'll prescribe. "- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "With that many drug reps out there, my guess is that there has to be many other pharmaceutical reps, just like both Gwen and Kathleen, who do have a conscience. If so, it might be rather difficult for them to justify promoting drugs, known to be dangerous, to doctors for their patients, (especially young children), if they were better informed. It possibly might help ease their conscience if they didn't know, (obviously the company's objective).
If you just happen to know of such an individual, or someone who is considering such a career, you might share my book with them."- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "When I was in medical school, pharmaceutical reps would take us to lunch at some of the best restaurants, give us leather medical bags, expensive medical textbooks, stethoscopes, and other "toys" to buy our loyalty. They were always friendly, and over time, we did become close friends with them. In private practice, we joked that a drug rep couldn't see us unless he brought some toys.
The 1960s and 1970s saw an attack on such practices, and soon the federal government stepped in and outlawed much of this activity."- Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) |
| "PMS is wed known to be mediated by magnesium, progesterone and essential fatty acid deficiencies.) pharmaceutical reps wine and dine doctors, send them on vacations, offer up to $ US 40,000 per patient recruited for studies, or as Dr. T. Rohland of Nova Scotia reported in The Medical Post (Feb.9, 1999): "If [the drug companies] can no longer appeal to our greed by giving us gifts, then a new tactic is needed. How about our raging uncontrodable hormones? Enter the gorgeous, young, model-type drug reps." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) "When MacMaster University, frustrated, declared their interns off limits to pharmaceutical reps, instructing these doctors of the future to read their research journals instead, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association threatened to withdraw all funding (The Toronto Star, Dec. 3, 1999). Internationally famous blood researcher, Dr. Nancy Olivieri, found a drug to be toxic to the liver and wanted to change patient consent forms accordingly. Sick Children's Hospital and the University of Toronto fired her to please the manufacturer Apotex. That backfired." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
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