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Re: Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com) Wed Apr 30 20:11:29 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "NEOGS" Previous message: Henry Gregor: "Re: Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways" In reply to: Ronald Ainsworth: "Re: Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways" Well, I am on the other side of this fence: I use mostly drug company pens - why buy them when I will lose them and I can get them free? I write for the drugs I think are best and many of the drugs I get pens on are ones I actually write for generics. The day that drug prices go down because I don't take pens or sticky note pads etc, I will quite taking items. But since the companies aren't going to reduce the cost to the patients - and reimbursements marginally cover overhead I will take what help I can get (even if it is on some lowly item such as pens) The Glossy page ads and TV ads are more effective at biasing the patients to beg for name brand stuff than the Company Detailing to me ... (my opinion and that could be ...) Joanne At Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Ronald Ainsworth wrote: > >One of my favorite pens was from Fosamax, it was >shaped like a femur. I gave that to my daughter when >she was taking anatomy. We need one shaped like a >uterus or ovary, although that would be a little hard >to hold onto. I actually prefer rollerball pens and >prefer to buy my own also. > -- Joanne Bulley, MD solo gyn Keene, NH Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "NEOGS" Previous message: Henry Gregor: "Re: Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways" In reply to: Ronald Ainsworth: "Re: Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways"

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