Big Pharma Throws a Tantrum

The physician I work for operates two offices, and both are frequented by pill reps hocking everything from blood pressure medication to anti-depressants, and of course, oral contraceptives, since my employer’s specialty is OB/GYN. Most of the reps are obnoxious, but none more than this immature twit who throws a tantrum when she thinks we’re favoring other pills over her beloved Loestrin24.

This “girl” is in her mid-20s and not too bright, but she believes that since her father is an OB/GYN, she’s down with the healthcare professional crowd. She thinks the nurses and medical assistants are her friends and tells us all sorts of unprofessional TMI, such as how she spent most of her college years drunk like everyone else (say what?), that she has a learning disability (I’ll say!), and that she can’t find a good man to settle down with (the horror!). She also badmouths all other pills, even going so far as to tell me that the pill I’d taken for over five years was “a really bad pill.” I responded that perhaps I should sue my physician of twelve years who just happens to be on the faculty of a well-respected medical school for prescribing me “a really bad pill” that happened to do me a “hell of a lot of good” seeing as how I remained un-pregnant and symptom-free while on it. She didn’t have a response, but one can’t expect an articulate exchange to occur with this person who has no compunction whatsoever about revealing how she graduated with a 2.something GPA in some bullshit major.

Lately, she’s taken to pouting openly and slamming the sample cabinet doors to illustrate her discontent with our perceived disloyalty. My colleagues have tried to reason with this entitled dumbass by explaining to her the financial hardships faced by individuals in the real world, specifically that they cannot afford to pay $40-50 per month for any brand-name pill and that’s why we give them prescriptions for brand-name and generic medications, so they can get what they can afford. But, healthcare ethics and simple logic hold no sway with this ignorant creature who doesn’t know the first thing about women’s health issues. Perhaps, she has too few brain cells left thanks to her collegiate binge-drinking. Then again, maybe she’s just stupid.

In any case, something must be done about this brat. I don’t have much faith in my employing physician, since he tends to be somewhat of a pacifist with the reps. He mostly ignores them, Ms. Loestrin24 included, except to sign paperwork and sample the sweets they bring, leaving the staff to deal with their endless drama. Luckily for me and for her, our paths haven’t crossed since the escalation in her behavior. I don’t care too much for children and even less for childish adults. I won’t have any problem showing her the door after I lecture her about what “a really bad pill” she’s hocking.