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<p>[QUOTE="DrDave, post: 4469020, member: 11145"]I always cringe when I read such accounts of unprofessional behavior on the part of my colleagues, but I certainly believe you. I have seen it first hand and heard it second hand from many trustworthy sources. A few years back, we had another thread on this subject you might want to check out-</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cafepharma.com/boards/showthread.php?t=109619" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cafepharma.com/boards/showthread.php?t=109619" rel="nofollow">Outrageous Behavior</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But, to answer your original question, I do not believe there is any organization that would address this type of behavior. State medical boards, specialty boards, hospital credentials committees and employers typically make and enforce policies regarding how physicians interact with patients and co-workers, not salespeople. I suppose you could report a disruptive (the term commonly used in credentialing circles referring to behavioral issues) physician to his employer if s/he has one, although that has other implications. If my employer, a hospital CEO, got such a complaint about any of his employed physicians, I feel sure I know how he would solve the problem - ban field reps from the campus so he doesn't get any more complaints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I feel that physicians (and people in general) should treat everyone with respect and civility, your comments suggest that there is a pharma problem, too. If a company consistently hires reps whose integrity they later question (IE, they believe the physician they don't know over the rep they do), administration needs to be asking serious questions about its processes. If the hiring process is sound, I would think that the default response should be to support the rep, not the physician. Part of that support should be absolving the rep of any responsibility to go back to an abusive office.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, I am baffled by this behavior from my colleagues - avoidance, hostility and disrespect suggest that the physician-rep relationship is not a valuable one for them. In any other walk of life, would such physicians engage in a relationship they disliked in order to get a free salad from Chipotle? </p><p><br /></p><p>If you said we physicians are an odd bunch, I'd say you're right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DrDave, post: 4469020, member: 11145"]I always cringe when I read such accounts of unprofessional behavior on the part of my colleagues, but I certainly believe you. I have seen it first hand and heard it second hand from many trustworthy sources. A few years back, we had another thread on this subject you might want to check out- [url=http://www.cafepharma.com/boards/showthread.php?t=109619]Outrageous Behavior[/url] But, to answer your original question, I do not believe there is any organization that would address this type of behavior. State medical boards, specialty boards, hospital credentials committees and employers typically make and enforce policies regarding how physicians interact with patients and co-workers, not salespeople. I suppose you could report a disruptive (the term commonly used in credentialing circles referring to behavioral issues) physician to his employer if s/he has one, although that has other implications. If my employer, a hospital CEO, got such a complaint about any of his employed physicians, I feel sure I know how he would solve the problem - ban field reps from the campus so he doesn't get any more complaints. Although I feel that physicians (and people in general) should treat everyone with respect and civility, your comments suggest that there is a pharma problem, too. If a company consistently hires reps whose integrity they later question (IE, they believe the physician they don't know over the rep they do), administration needs to be asking serious questions about its processes. If the hiring process is sound, I would think that the default response should be to support the rep, not the physician. Part of that support should be absolving the rep of any responsibility to go back to an abusive office. In the end, I am baffled by this behavior from my colleagues - avoidance, hostility and disrespect suggest that the physician-rep relationship is not a valuable one for them. In any other walk of life, would such physicians engage in a relationship they disliked in order to get a free salad from Chipotle? If you said we physicians are an odd bunch, I'd say you're right.[/QUOTE]
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