My good guy Canadian doc today ripped an uninvited Big Pharma rep to shreds in front of the waiting room

The "new laws" are just restating what has been illegal forever, more explicitly, more in-your-face, more "here's a new penalty - now pay attention this time!"

I worked at a med-device company that hired sales reps straight out of college, paid them fat commissions if they succeeded, tossed them out within a year if they didn't. Plenty of these kids "colored outside the lines," shared their commissions with docs to get a look at their patient lists so they could go to the patients directly. Of course they got busted. Company held a "training" telling all the reps not to do that (subtext: don't get caught doing that again) or they would be fired. 80% of them were fired within a year anyway and replaced with a fresh batch - think the fresh batch took the training seriously? Maybe they tried a bit harder to not get caught, but the penalty is the same for failing to be in the top 20% of producers as it is for getting caught coloring outside the lines - and what's the most sure-fire way to get into the top 20%? Color outside the lines.

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