Doesn't Big Pharma like Bayer and Pfizer pay for those Las Vegas Pharma convention weekends where they wine you and dine you ? That's what always heard , perks for the Docs . You've probably got your share to Dr.Jim....lol
Name one such convention? I want to know more, LMAO!
The answer to the question is THEY DO NOT. Big Pharma must pay for "booth areas' at these conventions to advertise their wares and most of those funds are used for the following:
!) The floor booth price
2) The reserved facility itself
3) Any food that may be served (although it's now not unusual to have to make an advanbce per/plate reservation that must be PAID FOR by someone. The latter varies considerably depending upon the who, what, when, where of the convention IME.
4) Alcohol availability varies by STATE LAW and for the majority we pay for alcohol except perhaps wine or beer and it's nothing to write home about IME
5) Used to increase the coffers of whichever "society" is FUNDING that meeting or convention, such as the AMA, ACEP, ACS etc (american college of emergency phys, american college of surgeons etc)
6) Heck I've attended two CME conventions in the past year one, in Costa Rica and the other in Vegas. The first was paid for by UT as a CME allowance of 2K annually yet having already consumed my CME allowance I paid for the whole shebang in Vegas.
Understand BIG PHARMA had nothing to do with either, yet doctors MUST have a certain number of CME credits annually!
While it's true the perks were high end to say the least as liitle as 10 years ago, the laws have changed considerably and if you find something to the contrary it's most likely BS or someone citing yesteryears "doctor party".
(but i'll gladly review anything you or anyone else believes contradicts my comments mate)
