Talk:Physician

making notes of USA laws-defining physician 1) Alabama [ http://www.albme.org/] [1] medical licensure requires: MD or OD from recognized accredited school in US, or foreign medical school. If from US school- need additional 1 year of accredited clinical training (US or Canada), if Foreign, need 3 years. If US must pass:The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), for foreign graduates other combination of exams (FLEX) 2) Alaska [2] MD or OD from accredited North American School, 1 year residency training if graduated before 1995, 2 years if after,

on possibility of conflict of interest re: pharma

I'm pleased to see that reference about conflict of interest. From my past work as a consultant in Big Pharma, I know some of the tactics used by pharmaceutical companies to get flyers about, and samples of, their drugs into the hands of physicians. For the representatives sent to hawk drugs in physician's offices, they choose young and attractive persons and train them in how to use very short windows of time to get a physician's attention. And I was shocked to learn that drugstores SELL their prescription sales records to big pharma, who can then further use those to target specific physicians who are not prescribing the products that they sell. I don't know if HIPAA eventually stopped that practice or not.Pat Palmer (talk) 19:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)