Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/business/28cheer.html?hp

"As an ambitious college student, Cassie Napier had all the right moves - flips, tumbles, an ever-flashing America's sweetheart smile - to prepare for her job after graduation. She became a drug saleswoman.

Ms. Napier, 26, was a star cheerleader on the national-champion University of Kentucky squad, which has been a springboard for many careers in pharmaceutical sales. She now plies doctors' offices selling the antacid Prevacid for TAP Pharmaceutical Products.

Ms. Napier says the skills she honed performing for thousands of fans helped land her job. "I would think, essentially, that cheerleaders make good sales people," she said.

Anyone who has seen the parade of sales representatives through a doctor's waiting room has probably noticed that they are frequently female and invariably good looking. Less recognized is the fact that a good many are recruited from the cheerleading ranks.

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Ugh.

...that the drug companies are trying to woo into prescribing their products. I know a few drug reps who were former golfers (college athletes and club pros). Their attraction vis-a-vis drug sales, is the ability to take doctors out for complimentary round or two. Yes, the soaring cost of drugs is in part to support the golf habits of wealthy doctors.

I once believed that people went into medicine out of a desire to help people, boy was I naive....its all about the perks.

at a major drug company that begins with Pfiz, they hired mostly ex-military. they felt the discipline of the armed services bode well for the work ethic they should have as a drug rep

(Uncle Bonsai)

How do they jump so high
How do they flip in mid-air
And spread their legs so wide
And wear the skirts that they wear
How do the mount each one
To make their pyramids
Is it the drugs they're on
These mental invalids

They wear their dark sunglasses
They play their games at night
The players make their passes
They wear their pom-poms just right
The mascot sneaks inside
He's proudly overspread
The game's not over yet
It's time to go to bed

It seems like they must be
On drugs or just stupid
They're buoyant and busty
And just plain dumb
It seems like they're brainwashed
Or on anesthesia
Their brain suffers weight loss
'Cause how else could they cheer like:

Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns
Um chagawa, um um chagawa
Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns
Um chagawa, Injuns got the powah
Go, G, O, go

It stunts their mental growth
And makes it hard to find
A future livelihood
Or others of their kind
The marching band it seems
The voyeurs in the stands
The refs and both the teams
Are all the raving fans for
Cheerleaders on drugs

It seems like they must be
On drugs or just stupid
They're buoyant and busty
And just plain dumb
The drug interaction
Could just be some teamwork
Their forces and factions
Make them sound like:

Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns
Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns
Give me an "I" - I
Give me an "N" - N
Give me a "J" - J
Give me a "U" "N" "S"
Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns
Go you Injuns
Go, go you Injuns

Cheerleaders on drugs
Cheerleaders on drugs
Cheerleaders on drugs

I've heard two different live versions of it off of Dr. Demento, and it's great to hear the crowd laughing along.

TlalocW

Thanks

Onya.

Will post thread here.

my mother worked in a doctor's office and this is what she had to say...

the male sales reps are typically good looking younger men who will work to butter up the secretaries and nurses in the office. They will bring in lunch and other perks to coerce the staff to put their name brand crap all over the office...

the female sales reps are dressed to the nines and are normally very pretty...many of them will take the male doctors out to lunch...

my mother got very mad at the one guy she worked for because he had a very nice wife and family and he became a bit too "cozy" with the one drug rep and my mom started to tell the drug rep the wrong times to show up to the office...that way the doctor was in surgery instead of available...

I would rather he be selling drugs than war.

Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders who witnesses told police were having sex with each other in a bathroom stall in Tampa

there was a vendor's stand surrounded by cheerleaders, who would start cheering periodically. I walked over to see what was happening, and they were promoting some sort of energy tonic. Each time a passerby sampled some of the tonic, the cheerleaders would do a little routine.

:eyes:

correct.

I have a friend whose wife was a year removed from being a cheerleader at a Big XII school when she was hired as a drug rep in Dallas. He told us it happens all of the time, and that was three years ago.

Cheerleaders and Big Pharma. :puke:

Former male strippers?

Many male reps resemble the GQ model wannabe crowd.

to patients who can't afford them. The drug reps, the same ones that go to the male doctors, get my precious time and I get their ballpoint pens and coffee mugs...never got free golf or any vacations but I will keep you posted.

Or, if not yourself, do other doctors find themselves writing up more prescriptions for Drug X than they would otherwise?

samples which companies tend to be the most generous...so that they can pick that drug over ones I usually don't have. When all things are equal, usually the patient picks the medication based on past experience, side-effect profile, and recommendations from friends and family.

Go for the golf game and see if they'll thrown in a set of clubs with their logo! :silly:

Hold out for the BLING! LOL

Peace.

My hubby butters up the drug reps and gets a ton of free samples which he gives to his poor patients.
Two can play at that game.

Except the drug reps keep track of what drugs your hubby prescribes, and they won't drop off samples of drugs that aren't prescribed often.

It's a sad, bizarre world.

Isn't that a privacy issue? Where would they get the information?

Big Pharma knows every script I write, whether for their drug or their competitors.

nt.

I'm an RN, and I see drug reps every week. They all look air brushed with Aqua Netted hair (female AND male), and they invariably bring little trinkets like pens, cups, candy, and they even order pizza for different nursing units. . . . (!) If there are any other RN's out there, they can confirm what I'm saying.

Some things never change, I guess.