Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
I dislike the salespeople (med supplies and drugs) more than politicians.

I worked in the area where the sales reps would come in and almost offer themselves up in order to get a sale.

Those people were scumbags, liars and the biggest thieves on the planet.
Just don't even get me started on pharmaceutical sales people. (shiver) I was waiting in the doctor's office one morning when one of them came in. Talk about a schmooze-a-palooza! I felt like the rep was wasting my time more than my doctor's, since I was paying to see her, and he wasn't.

Then in my last job there was a weekly inservice for the docs and clinical staff with a catered lunch, sometimes a guest speaker, and usually a "commercial" for a particular product that had either been added to formulary recently or they wanted us to add. The nurses weren't too welcome at those because we didn't directly contribute to formulary decisions.

Big Pharma likes to have nurses as sales reps - somehow it seems to make the sales rep image less sleazy. I wouldn't do it if it was the last job on earth. I'd take bedpans over a sample case in a heartbeat. The receptionist for the doctor I used to see kept track of how many sales reps came in each day. She would allow a couple, and then put a sign on the door: No more sales rep calls today. The doctor I go to now is part of a teaching hospital so I don't believe they don't get sales rep calls at all.