BarrelMan_blog.JPGThe message of a recent cartoon in “The New Yorker” was so self-evident that it didn’t even require a caption. It showed a patient sitting on an examining table looking alarmed at his doctor, who was wearing a white coat covered with drug-maker decals. The doctor looked just like one of those race car drivers displaying all their sponsors. In this marketing-driven age of modern medicine, perhaps such attire for MDs is not such a bad idea.

After all, whenever I visit my doctor these days, I almost always see at least one, if not more, drug dealers (I mean pharmaceutical manufacturer sales reps), sitting and waiting to deliver their pitch.

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