Pharmaceutical Junk

Hideous

by Rob on October 12, 2012 · 6 comments

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This, in my opinion, is the crowning glory of my drug company junk collection.  It’s absolutely hideous, so bad in fact that it is wonderful.  Clarinex, as some may not know, is basically “son of Claritin.” Claritin was a non-sedating anti-histamine which made a bus-load of money for the manufacturer.  But then the drug went [...]

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The Dog Pen

by Rob on September 17, 2012 · 5 comments

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In looking through my vast collection of pens I came across a surprise: It raised the obvious questions: Why do I have a pen from Blueboy Chihuahuas? Why would I have a pen from a company in Lowell MA? Did a Chihuahua rep come around to my practice trying to get me to encourage my [...]

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I’ve got a bunch of pen pics taking up my memory, so I’m going to do my second post spawned by my discovery of a motherlode of drug pens in my desk.  Today’s menagerie will feature some questionable decisions by the marketing departments.  It’s bad enough to have doctors hate you (and throw things at you), or [...]

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Pharmaceutical Junk

by Rob on September 2, 2012

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I cleaned out a drawer in my desk today.  There were a lot of pens, many of which had drug company logos attached to them.  As I looked over this menagerie, I was mildly awed and moderately amused by the variations on a pretty mundane medium.  I ended up taking a bunch of pictures, and [...]

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