OT. Cost of prescription tablets in the US. Need some assistance.

Brooklyn1 wrote:


I can vouch for that as I was in Belize earlier this month and stopped
in the pharmacy. They really entice and catered to vactioners though and
I didn't see any locals there. I was pretty amazed at what could be
purchased over the counter. The pharmacist was an American from New
Orleans, not that that matters, I guess?

Speaking of xrays- I lived right down the road from the building where
Roentgen invented/discovered xrays in Wurzburg, Germany. There was a big
designation on the building about it. What a coincidence that you
mentioned it.
 
On Feb 26, 3:08?pm, "Kent" wrote:

Oh, really. You go into a doctor's office and the pens, clock, tissue
boxes, notepads, and EVERYTHING has, say, "Lunesta" on them. You're
there for, an instance, insomnia. What do you think you will be
prescribed that day?

Also, check out when you're there for your appointment and the pharma
rep is there. Yeah, right.

Doctors are salesmen, the same as the salesmen that sell cars and
large appliances.
 
On Feb 26, 7:27?pm, Sqwertz wrote:

Yes, that has happened to me, and also my husband more than once.
"What kind of insurance do you have?" Then the reply, and out comes
the script pad! They're salesmen, pushers.
 
projectile vomit chick wrote:



When my former sil was in pre-med, she was a very idealistic young
woman. And charismatic, I guess that's how she got a bunch of her
classmates to refuse all the textbooks/supplies/whatever from drug
companies. My fil wasn't all that thrilled since that meant he had to
pay for them. Heh. It starts that soon, the drug companies schmoozing
the doctors.

nancy
 
Nancy Young wrote:


Not to worry. The drug companies have a new agreement and have since
stopped with the *gimmes* as of last year.
My pen supply is dwindling, LOL.
 
Hoges in WA wrote in
news:[email protected]:





But just rememnber....... the outlay to get a script from a US Dr.



--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

"As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends
and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who
we are.

We are Queenslanders.

We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border.

We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again."
 
In article ,
[email protected] says...

Do all the drug companies do it? If so then how does it influence
physicians to choose one product over another? Is the physician paid in
proportion to the number of prescriptions he writes for a given
medication? How does the pharmaceutical company know?
 
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