Thursday, February 9, 2012

Slippery Slope

So I've just accepted my first handful of samples from a drug rep.

I shamelessly asked for them (to take myself) and he obliged.

Is this the start of a long and amoral love affair with pharmaceutical reps?

Perhaps.

(For the record, it was vitamin D and also for the record I think the stuff should be mega-dosed into the water table. Just sayin'.)


10 comments:

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Welcome to the dark side, Luke.

Just Me said...

Just curious, do they have a vitamin D3 in Ireland? D2 really isn't as good as D3.

Albinoblackbear said...

@Grump: I've never been afraid of the dark...

@JM: Yep, these are D3 tablets, available OTC.

Grumpy, M.D. said...

I hate the dark. I much prefer milk chocolate.

Absentbabinski said...

:O

"Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow. Swallow, but don't enjoy..."

Kinda surprised that Ireland gets even less sun than rural Canada!

Grumpy, M.D. said...

He's my broken glass
He's my blood blister
He's my Johnny Rotten
My vitamin D supplier.

Albinoblackbear said...

Hahah, I am a *total* Vit D pusher!! In fact, I am going to audit the practice and get all the >60's on the juice! :D

Elizabeth Shouldice said...

ABB! Vitamin D! Be still my heart!

Just Me said...

First vitamin D, then skin lotion. It's a slippery slope :)
I'm a Vitamin D pusher too. Same weather as in Ireland

the golddigger said...

Yes! Take it! Then when your patient loses her job and her imitrex is going to cost $167 for nine pills (2005 prices), you can load her up with free samples.

I am still grateful, Dr Light.