[mobglob-discuss] Drug companies drumming up business

[Graeme Bacque]

This one speaks for itself. - Graeme

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Boston Globe
Psychiatrists become drug firms' targets

By Ellen Barry, Globe Staff, 5/28/2002
Full text
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/148/science/Psychiatrists_become_drug_firms_targets+.shtml


PHILADELPHIA - Ivonne Munez Velazquez, a psychiatrist from Mexico, rooted
through her goody bag like a child on Halloween.


As a reward for attending the American Psychiatric Association's annual
meeting, she had received a small egg-shaped clock from the makers of the
antidepressant Prozac; a sleek thermos from Paxil, also an antidepressant; and
an engraved silver business card holder courtesy of Depakote, an
anticonvulsant. She got a neat little CD carrying case from Risperdol, an
antipsychotic; a passport holder from Celexa, an antipsychotic; a neat green
paperweight from Remeron, an antidepressant; and a letter opener, representing
what drug she could not remember.

For the duration of the weekend, though, Velazquez's loyalty belonged to
Pfizer, which had paid her airfare from Mexico City (along with 30 of her
colleagues and her 18-year-old nephew) and put them all up in hotels near the
APA meeting. That night, also courtesy of Pfizer, she would attend a glittering
banquet at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Asked whose products she
prescribes the most, Velazquez giggled, looked around and whispered, ''Lilly.''
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