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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by analog31 on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:36PM (#15049101)
They could eliminate the suspicion by not buying lunch.

A relative of mine was a pharma salesman. She had a database with the lunch preferences for every doctor on her circuit, and bought several lunches a day.

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:01AM (#15051772)
> bought several lunches a day

Sequentially, or in parallel?

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Re:Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors by analog31 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:34AM (#15051859)
Parallel. For any given clinic, she would know which doctors worked there, and what their preferences were at the nearby take-out sandwich shops.

Whenever I used to go to a clinic, I noticed that if it was around lunchtime, the salesmen started piling up in the lobby.

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