” Selling pharmaceuticals is an extremely competitive business and companies know that they need to put their best face forward. That face is usually a smiling drug representative whose job it is to teach your physician about the newest medicines being produced today.
In Canada the drug industry spends roughly $3 billion per year marketing its products, two-thirds of which goes towards the salaries of the sales reps who visit our physicians regularly, and the drug samples they use to enhance their one-on-one learning sessions. “
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by Alan Cassels, Feb 28, 2012.