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[JackieTreehorn]

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So I know other doctors get stuff like nexium pens, viagra pads, and all sorts of drug tchachkes. Do psychiatrists get Xanax pens and Valium pads and Prozac watches? This could affect my interest in psychiatry

 

[maranatha]

Yes. They get them just like in all medical specialities.

Why should that influence going into psychiatry in particular? If that is a negative for you and is going to influence going into psychiatry, then you might as well say you won't go into medicine.

If you feel strongly about it, then simply do what a lot of us do and don't take the gifts.

 

[JackieTreehorn]

No of course this wouldn't influence my decision. I was just curious. I've seen all sorts of different drug pens but never ones for psychiatric drugs. Viagra pens are funny, other medications whatever, but I thought that crap about psychiatric drugs would be a more sensitive area and perhaps they don't make them.

 

[josehernandez94]

This is very important?

 

[maranatha]

This could affect my interest in psychiatry.

No of course this wouldn't influence my decision.

?

 

[JackieTreehorn]

?

Maybe I should go into politics.

No, in the first post I was just kidding, and of course the topic isn't important at all. Your answer was more serious than I had expected (though I thank you regardless) so I figured you didn't realize that I was kidding so I pointed out "No of course not"

 

[OldPsychDoc]

I once had a Viagra pen that wouldn't stay up...

Where I'm at, they are banning logo items--mugs, clocks, pens, clipboards, etc.--where they can be seen by patients. It does subtly indicate a conflict of interest, e.g "maybe he's giving me seroquel because they gave him that mug, not because it's the best option for me", and I think patients do pick up on that. (Then they think that I'm one of those doctors getting paid thousands of $$$ to shill for big pharma.)

 

[billypilgrim37]

It does subtly indicate a conflict of interest, e.g "maybe he's giving me seroquel because they gave him that mug, not because it's the best option for me", and I think patients do pick up on that. (Then they think that I'm one of those doctors getting paid thousands of $$$ to shill for big pharma.)

Someone should set up an exchange system for different specialties. For example, all the psychiatrists and infectious disease docs could get together and have a pen swap festival. I sorta doubt I'm ever going to prescribe Augmentin past 2009, and I sure hope that ID Doc isn't handing out the Geodon...

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Someone should set up an exchange system for different specialties. For example, all the psychiatrists and infectious disease docs could get together and have a pen swap festival. I sorta doubt I'm ever going to prescribe Augmentin past 2009, and I sure hope that ID Doc isn't handing out the Geodon...

I liked the suggestion a couple of months ago from one of our members--
?Raspberry Swirl?, ?MBK2003?--that we print up some pens with the generic "formula" for the B-52 engraved on them, and pass them out in the ED.

 

[whopper]

I found a marinol pen once on the ground.

No joke.

That'd be funny--giving that out to patients, especially the once with cannabis dependence.

Remember--I'm only joking, though I really did find that type of pen.

 

[maranatha]

ECT SHOCK PENS-BZZZZZ-OUCH
LOOKS HARMLESS TO OTHERS, YOUR TARGET THINKS ITS A PEN BUT GETS A NICE SHOCK TO WAKE THEM UP WHEN THEY TRY TO USE IT!!

 

[OldPsychDoc]

ECT SHOCK PENS-BZZZZZ-OUCH
LOOKS HARMLESS TO OTHERS, YOUR TARGET THINKS ITS A PEN BUT GETS A NICE SHOCK TO WAKE THEM UP WHEN THEY TRY TO USE IT!!

Great--but of course it's already been established on this forum that ECT is a rare occurrence... 🙄

 

[maranatha]

Great--but of course it's already been established on this forum that ECT is a rare occurrence... 🙄

Hence the need for the new Promotional Pen to boost sales!

 

[jjbmsiv]

This is very important?

Seconded. Holy crap.

 

[MBK2003]

that we print up some pens with the generic "formula" for the B-52 engraved on them, and pass them out in the ED.

At the psych ER on the northern tip of Manhattan we used to talk about a drug pen for the "Bellevue Cocktail" which was our seldom utilized but frequently threatened 10-4-50 IM. We would daydream about writing that order for a PITA regular with the "Bellevue pen" and a smile floating across our face 😀

MBK2003

 

[maranatha]

At the psych ER on the northern tip of Manhattan we used to talk about a drug pen for the "Bellevue Cocktail" which was our seldom utilized but frequently threatened 10-4-50 IM. We would daydream about writing that order for a PITA regular with the "Bellevue pen" and a smile floating across our face 😀

MBK2003

We had a guy transferred to our unit from an OSH on the 10-4-50 last Friday. I'd actually never heard of it...He was totally snowed when he came in. Now that he is awake, many of us want to give him another IM.

 

[billypilgrim37]

I gave 5-2's on my psych emergency rotation, and thought I was really blistering people (how sad is that, my first IM shots as a med student are in psych emergency)...

So what's the 50?

(naive little med student boldly asks question, then squirms to the corner, awaiting a STFU NOOB! scream)😱

 

[Solideliquid]

I don't know about you guys but those red Risperdal pens write the best!


...wrong thread?



EDIT: The "50" is usually benadryl in IM form.

 

[Anasazi23]

I gave 5-2's on my psych emergency rotation, and thought I was really blistering people (how sad is that, my first IM shots as a med student are in psych emergency)...

So what's the 50?

(naive little med student boldly asks question, then squirms to the corner, awaiting a STFU NOOB! scream)😱

50 = diphenhydramine

NOOBLET!!!!

 

[OldPsychDoc]

50 = diphenhydramine

NOOBLET!!!!

Be nice to the noobs...they may save your glutes someday.

Anyway, I always thought the benedryl was spoken for by the "B"...
Why argue--it takes too long to write out "diphenhydramine"...😳

 

[luft]

I don't know about you guys but those red Risperdal pens write the best!


...wrong thread?



EDIT: The "50" is usually benadryl in IM form.

I have been using an awesome Risperdal consta pen for several weeks now. Before, my favorite pens came from viagra and zyvox.

 

[Solideliquid]

YEAH lol risperdal reps FTW.