Following the script: how drug reps make friends and influence doctors.

It’s my job to figure out what a physician’s price is. For some it’s dinner at the finest restaurants, for others it’s enough convincing data to let them prescribe confidently and for others it’s my attention and friendship...but at the most basic level, everything is for sale and everything is an exchange. —Shahram Ahari You are absolutely buying love.

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8 more references, whose wording the paper’s licence keeps private.

• Interactions between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry generally and sales representatives specifically and their association with physicians’ attitudes and prescribing habits: a systematic review · 2017

• Prescribing indicators at primary health care centers within the WHO African region: a systematic analysis (1995–2015) · 2016

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