# Ugh pharmaceutical sales

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**Created:** [August 18, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ugh-pharmaceutical-sales/16123 "2006-08-18T11:34:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ugh-pharmaceutical-sales/16123/15 "2006-08-18T18:58:30Z")

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> [@traumadog](#):
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> I’m not sure how advertising pharmaceuticals is unethical - inducements (which these days sounds like it includes a $10 paid-for lunch) are.
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> Now no physician in the world will be able to keep up on all the drugs available on the market today. The Physician’s Drug Reference is a small-print textbook that’s a phone book in size - imagine memorizing one of those each year.
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> Now my point is if you’re going to ban rep-sponsored sales, you should ban all advertising (including direct-to-consumer ones).
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> If you do that, expect a great slowdown in new drugs coming to market - the USDM for pharmaceuticals is the greatest source of R&D money for the drug companies. And remember - making a drug is cheap. Inventing/discovering/studying one isn’t.

Well, it’s no question that frequently a doctor cannot find anything “wrong” with their patient. However, saying this would make them look inadequate. So I guess having drugs that are perceptual cures, harmless, but ineffective at eliciting any action, are useful. That’s a problem with the healthcare industry in general, however.

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