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How bout just don’t use it. You can lie to your dentist. He’s going to just tell you to floss more either way. He’s just pushing it on you because some pharma
by yuppie_scum 5y ago
How bout just don’t use it. You can lie to your dentist. He’s going to just tell you to floss more either way.
He’s just pushing it on you because some pharma rep came in and bought him a nice steak and bottle of wine at the Capital Grille.
Same as how you get all those shirts from Splunk and USB drives from Salesforce or whoever at ReInvent.
- jpmoral 5y agoOur child's dentist recommended a sonic toothbrush. We got a Sonicare (no app required). It's one of the best things that's happened to his teeth. YMMV. I don't deny that people often have ulterior motives but I think operating on the assumption that that's the only motive they can possibly have is harmful.
- markus_zhang 5y agoJust curious since it's impossible to track by whose advice the patient purchases the merchandise, how does the salesman justify the spending?
- COGlory 5y agoThey're just trying to get their toothbrush the one featured at the dentist office. And then if you buy it at the dentists, they'll be able to tell how many that dentist is moving.
- markus_zhang 5y agoAh I see, so patients can purchase at dentist's office. Yeah that would be trackable. Seems it works a bit different in Canada as they onlt make recommendations but never sell products. They do offer samples which I think are provided by salesmen.
- genocidicbunny 5y ago> He’s just pushing it on you because some pharma rep came in and bought him a nice steak and bottle of wine at the Capital Grille. This reminded me of the Open Payments Data[1] site that I recently found out about. You might be able to find out exactly how much that nice steak and bottle of wine cost the pharma rep. [1] https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/