Henry Ford bans pharma perks, vendor drop-ins

Dear Anne

Physician has something in them called Integrity, meaning they cannot be brided.
For the joy of working for a big health group, as "employee", you do not need Integrity anymore. Big brother will look after you and decide how you should behave,
in Detroit or former Soviet empire !

Yours truly

Mike Wei, MD

Where does it stop? We are taking extremely well educated medical consultants charged with ensuring the proper use of medical products and devices and slowly decreasing the talent pool as companies are forced to reduce the amount of customer field support. Who will show the doctors how to use tomorrows medical break throughs? Who will educate the staff on how to set up or maintain the equipment or prepare an implant? The hospital administrators? The purchasing department? How about the CFO? Forgive me if I seem a bit bothered but I do see a trend that we ultimately slow the progress of healthcare and reduce patient care as industry is thrown to the way side. Hospitals scream of cutting cost to products while they spend millions on new hospitals and elaborate water fountains and marble entryways. They buy gimmicks such as million dollar robots that add time, money and intensive set up knowhow. Meanwhile the same administrators take home extensive salaries while their understaffed nurses, doctors, and medical personnel scramble everyday to make sure patients are well taken care of. Doctors are not easily swayed by a lunch or a pen…..that’s ridiculous! Penalize those that break the rules…not the majority that doesn’t!
One last question…do the same rules apply to the administration of the hospital in terms of non-medical vendors? Who is regulating the regulators? Maybe those who are bothered by the way sales representatives do business should try being as sales representative and experience just how “EASY” a sales position is! Just a thought…