Dawna remembered those training sessions clearly. The speakers warned that sales reps couldn’t give doctors gifts, honorariums, free resort weekends, or s****l favors to persuade them to prescribe products. Stricter FDA guidelines and industry self-policing had eliminated all those thinly disguised bribes prevalent in the past. Dawna had also noted what was missing from that lecture. Ten straight days of training and no speaker nor printed handout included the information that promoting a product for off-label use was illegal.
“Whitney,” Forrester continued, “you’re our patient. Not because you look pregnant,” he added jovially, “but since you’re wearing a skirt, it’ll be easy for Dawna to demonstrate how the pump works, using your leg.”
Demonstrate the pump on Whitney’s leg. Take this t
