Pfizer Night at Boston Billiards
To the Editor: One morning I came across an announcement on a bulletin board in the emergency department to the effect that “Pfizer Night returns . . . at Boston Billiards.” The small poster proclaimed: “Come meet the new Pfizer representatives . . . not to mention . . . Rack 'em up & Toss...
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| Published in | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 337; no. 2; p. 134 |
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United States
Massachusetts Medical Society
10.07.1997
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| Abstract | To the Editor:
One morning I came across an announcement on a bulletin board in the emergency department to the effect that “Pfizer Night returns . . . at Boston Billiards.” The small poster proclaimed: “Come meet the new Pfizer representatives . . . not to mention . . . Rack 'em up & Toss 'em down.” A few weeks later, at a noontime conference, a Pfizer salesperson invited residents in my pediatrics training program to a repeat of Pfizer Night. He explained that Pfizer paid for billiard-table time (“rack 'em up”) and drinks (“toss 'em down”) for doctors who . . . |
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| AbstractList | To the Editor:
One morning I came across an announcement on a bulletin board in the emergency department to the effect that “Pfizer Night returns . . . at Boston Billiards.” The small poster proclaimed: “Come meet the new Pfizer representatives . . . not to mention . . . Rack 'em up & Toss 'em down.” A few weeks later, at a noontime conference, a Pfizer salesperson invited residents in my pediatrics training program to a repeat of Pfizer Night. He explained that Pfizer paid for billiard-table time (“rack 'em up”) and drinks (“toss 'em down”) for doctors who . . . |
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