Reply #19: Amen to all of that. [View All]

Look at any medical journal--it's half ads. Expensive ones, too. Thank goodness the NEJM doesn't allow ads in the meat of the journal, but JAMA does. Horrible.

Hubby usually works through lunch and so doesn't see the reps or talk with them. He tries to avoid them, too, and he just brings home their stuff for the kids to play with and break. It's all junk anyway (crappy pens, sticky notes with too big a logo on them to really use, stuff like that).

He actually ate the lunch one day with one of the other docs, and the rep didn't understand how the drug actually worked. She tried to say that it was better than the other one on the market when there were only a couple of teeny differences (and the other one had gone generic anyway). He and the partner sat and explained to her how the drug she was selling worked and how it wasn't that much different, though far more expensive. She actually thanked them for teaching her about her own product.