What's your favorite drug rep pen?

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Terpskins99

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Normally, I'm a Pilot G2 gel pen kinda guy... but man, I had this one great green/black Invanz pen that was abruptly taken from me by an attending. And boy, do I really miss holding it. 🙁

It felt great to carry around on the floors. That rubber/foam grip was just too comfortable.
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My favorite thus far is the lexapro pen. It looks unassuming, but the bold black gel ink (not that wimpy ball point roller crap) has never failed me thus far. With the other drug rep pens I've had to scribble around to get the thing to start churning out ink, but never with Lexapro. So here's to you, Lexapro. F--k the cheaper equivalent Celexa, I'll prescribe Lexapro everytime!
 
I had a great Zetia pen. Perfect balance and weight, and a great ball point that didn't smudge and wrote really smoothly. It ran out of ink during pharm. =(
 
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why do attendings steal all of your good pens? i had the best adderall pen, nice gel ink with a comfy grip, and the day i bust it out my attending suddenly needed a pen. grrrr.
anyone else use pens depending on their mood? when i cant focus studying, i used the adderall pen. if i was feeling depressed, the lexapro pen. if i ate mcdonalds, the lipitor pen.
 
I am fully committed to Parker pens. Unless durg reps start giving away parkers, I will use them only to sign my tab with in bars so the pretty girl next to me notices I am using a drug pen and that I may or may not be a doctor and thus throws herself upon me.

Seriously though, best pen ever
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I had this great thin, metal Lyrica pen, but I dropped it and broke off the clicky part.

I always carry around one cheap, crappy drug pen in case an attending or resident asks to borrow one. For some reason they always seem to give that one back 😀.

In the first two years I was a real pen snob, I only used thin (<.4 mm) tip gel pens that I'd buy for >$2.50 each. They ran out of ink so fast, I'd spend around $30-40 on a new batch each semester.
 
Rhophylac (Anti-D IgG) had such an awesome pen that wrote so smoothly...I would prescribe it over RhoGAM on that basis alone.
 
Cymbalta, by far

it writes so smooth, but the ink doesn't clump. It's the best of both worlds.

Too bad a damn attending stole it from me 😡
 
You guys suck for letting them steal your pens. I always make them give me my pens back.

Also, worst pens ever are Invega. Couldn't even write a full note before the ink ran out.
 
Right now the Tygacil pen is my favorite. I had a Viagra pen when it first came onto the market, nice heave metal pen that wrote so well....got stolen by someone who liked it more than I did.....
 
On the topic of attendings and pens, I always feel like they're going to put somebody's eye out, becuase they like to wave those things in your face as they're doing hand gestures while they talk.

One of the department libraries at our hospital is named after a famous doctor who chaired the department. Inside is a portrait of the man, with a big hole right in the center of it. It happened because an attending was sitting in a chair one day, doing a demonstration of a seizure when his pen went flying and hit the picture. :hardy:

One day it's going to be someone's eye though. :scared:
 
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I like the Zoloft pens. They seem to last quite a while.
 
I had a Provigil pen that was pretty sweet. Nice ball roller, but the perk wasn't the comfort, but the highlighter tip that could slide out over the pen tip with a twist of the grip. So if you were taking notes on an article or handout, you can highlight and write without flipping your pen around, or using two seperate instruments.

Brilliant.
 
I would just like to say that you are all jerks for giving into detailing. When you kill your patients years from now, I hope the free pens were worth it. 😡😡😡
 
Hard24Get said:
I would just like to say that you are all jerks for giving into detailing. When you kill your patients years from now, I hope the free pens were worth it. 😡😡😡
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I think EM docs kill more people than anyone else. On medicine they were always sending pt's to the floor that obviously needed to be in the ICU. Their cavalier lack of anything resembling thoroughness and their impossible-to-read handwriting undoubtedly kills more patients each year than drug company pens and the prescription choices they inspire possibly could.

Oh, and you're not supa-fly, btw. If anything people are getting fairly sick of your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude. I feel sorry for your classmates.
 
Hard24Get said:
I would just like to say that you are all jerks for giving into detailing. When you kill your patients years from now, I hope the free pens were worth it. 😡😡😡
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daggonnit... why is it that EVERY resident at my hospital has an Invanz pen?

well, i tried emailing merck to see if they would send me one or something... no can do. 😡

so if it makes you feel better, i am forever refusing to use invanz for any of my future patients. i don't care if they beg and scream for it. nope, sorry... its garden variety generic carbapenem's for you, buddy.
 
Hard24Get said:
I would just like to say that you are all jerks for giving into detailing. When you kill your patients years from now, I hope the free pens were worth it. 😡😡😡
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Jeez, it was a joke. Our AMSA has gotten rid of all drug rep stuff at our hospital, and everyone thinks it's ridiculous. I'm surprised you didn't get the sarcasm.

getunconcsious said:
I think EM docs kill more people than anyone else. On medicine they were always sending pt's to the floor that obviously needed to be in the ICU. Their cavalier lack of anything resembling thoroughness and their impossible-to-read handwriting undoubtedly kills more patients each year than drug company pens and the prescription choices they inspire possibly could.

Oh, and you're not supa-fly, btw. If anything people are getting fairly sick of your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude. I feel sorry for your classmates.
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😕 no idea what you are talking about. I don't remember what exchange we could have had that left you so upset? I won't legitimize the "EM docs" comment with a response, but when have I ever been "sanctimonious" or "holier than thou" 😕? My classmates and I get along fine. If you have a problem with me, I'd be happy to hear it. 🙂
 
oh, and my favorite pen is the Advair pen - fat and purple 🙂
 
kronickm said:
I am fully committed to Parker pens. Unless durg reps start giving away parkers, I will use them only to sign my tab with in bars so the pretty girl next to me notices I am using a drug pen and that I may or may not be a doctor and thus throws herself upon me.

Seriously though, best pen ever
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Those are some pretty sweet pens
 
Mmmm, love my Rapamune pen. It's small enough to fit comfortably in my hand. 🙂

Actually, at UCLA, we're no longer allowed to accept pens/lunches/anything from drug reps.
 
Hard24Get said:
😕 no idea what you are talking about. I don't remember what exchange we could have had that left you so upset? I won't legitimize the "EM docs" comment with a response, but when have I ever been "sanctimonious" or "holier than thou" 😕? My classmates and I get along fine. If you have a problem with me, I'd be happy to hear it. 🙂
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I truly am sorry if it was sarcastic. I don't think I've ever had a problem with a reply to me specifically. What I was referring to were a few posts in which I felt that you were somewhat harsh towards people asking for advice, or people writing about bad experiences on SubI's.

I'll admit that after my IM rotation I do have a personal bias against EM b/c I felt like they screwed us over a lot. But yeah what I said probably was uncalled for, and I'm sorry.
 
Did any of you guys get the Spiriva Pen? It was green and white, and when you clicked it, the tip would light up. It was friggin' awesome.

That thing was ergonomically superior to any pen I have ever held. I wrote many a note with it but some ass stole it because they knew how awesome it was.
 
getunconcsious said:
I truly am sorry if it was sarcastic. I don't think I've ever had a problem with a reply to me specifically. What I was referring to were a few posts in which I felt that you were somewhat harsh towards people asking for advice, or people writing about bad experiences on SubI's.
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oh, ok. I don't remember, of course, and since I rarely post to needle people, I'm sure I was just trying to help. But it's SDN and you are always free to post and disagree.

getunconcsious said:
I'll admit that after my IM rotation I do have a personal bias against EM b/c I felt like they screwed us over a lot. But yeah what I said probably was uncalled for, and I'm sorry.
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I appreciate the apology. I accept, of course, that my chosen specialty is in the fishbowl and individual decisions are often frowned upon by Monday morning quarterbacks withoout giving credit for the good things we do. I just don't think vast generalizations about all the doctors in any specialty is fair. But I digress....
 
UCLAstudent said:
Actually, at UCLA, we're no longer allowed to accept pens/lunches/anything from drug reps.
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There's an attending at my school who accepts pens/clipboards from drug reps, no problem. But as soon as the reps leave the building, she starts handing out nail files, and everyone has to help scratch the drug name off of everything. "De-drug-repping" is what she calls it.
 
Hard24Get said:
I appreciate the apology. I accept, of course, that my chosen specialty is in the fishbowl and individual decisions are often frowned upon by Monday morning quarterbacks withoout giving credit for the good things we do. I just don't think vast generalizations about all the doctors in any specialty is fair. But I digress....
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TROLLS! Stop digressing with irrelevant discussions about worthless residencies such as emergency medicine.

We're missing the bigger issue here... drug rep pens!
 
Terpskins99 said:
TROLLS! Stop digressing with irrelevant discussions about worthless residencies such as emergency medicine.

We're missing the bigger issue here... drug rep pens!
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sorry 🙄, carry on
 
All time favorite: Thrombin topical. It's a half length pen but one end is a LED pen light, other end is pen and the cap serves as a PDA sylus. It unfortunately got lost...
Current favorite: Eraxis. Nice and heavy with a good wide grip. Unfortunately I have a hard time saying anidulafungin without tripping.
 
the risperdal pen is awesome...it has a top see through part with different shapes ..in an oil type liquid that go up and down as you turn the pen
 
getunconcsious said:
My favorite thus far is the lexapro pen. It looks unassuming, but the bold black gel ink (not that wimpy ball point roller crap) has never failed me thus far. With the other drug rep pens I've had to scribble around to get the thing to start churning out ink, but never with Lexapro. So here's to you, Lexapro. F--k the cheaper equivalent Celexa, I'll prescribe Lexapro everytime!
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Celexa and Lexapro are both made by the same company (though citalopram, celexa, has a generic). Lexapro is better though (only has the s enantiomer).
 
Lovenox made the best pen... a femur with a removable cap
 
Funny Story while I have no business on this thread.
I am currently a Third Grade Teacher at a very conservative Christian School. The son of the other Third Grade teacher is in the 5th grade. That morning she and I had a conversation about the funny types of pens that her husband brings home from the pharmacy, namely the abundance of viagra pens. Later that same afternoon the principal comes to her and tells her that her son was doing his math with a viagra pen. The teacher thought he was joking, but then went and actually checked his desk to find it. He had no idea what viagra was anyway, and the teacher's husband won't bring home anymore pends like that. Maybe that was an inside joke, but I sure thought it was funny!
 
Spiriva is the best pen hands down. It writes extremely well with a superior rubber grip, AND, if you click it twice, the tip becomes a small flashlight. It really comes in handy for writing notes during dimly lit conferences/morning report/grand rounds.
 
cyclohexanol said:
The levitra "pop-up"/erection pen is pretty rad as far as novelty value goes. Not very comfortable for writing though.
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Yeah, it is a pretty awesome pen no doubt, and it writes well enough to keep around.

As far as the comfort issue, I agree. I've found that if you keep the open end against your knuckle, the hinge keeps it from moving and it's fairly comfortable.

...these are the kind of observations that keep me from making good grades 🙄
 
I have discovered the neat little trick of taking the disposable crappy gel pens and taking out the refill. You then stick the gel refill in a nice, weighty, metal grip that you also got that has a crappy ballpoint refill....Walah! You now have a nice, heavy metal pen like the Crestor one with a nice grip but have converted it into a gel pen.
try it out...
 
Midwest Medic said:
Right now the Tygacil pen is my favorite. I had a Viagra pen when it first came onto the market, nice heave metal pen that wrote so well....got stolen by someone who liked it more than I did.....
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Have the Tygacil also loved it, then stole a second one, which didn't write well, karma I guess, I recognize that bright orange color anywhere 🙂
 
Biscuit799 said:
Cymbalta, by far

it writes so smooth, but the ink doesn't clump. It's the best of both worlds.

Too bad a damn attending stole it from me 😡
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The cymbalta is the best write now, nice, study expensive looking pen, left it on the table in the ER for like 5 minutes and someone stole it 🙁
 
BMW19 said:
I have discovered the neat little trick of taking the disposable crappy gel pens and taking out the refill. You then stick the gel refill in a nice, weighty, metal grip that you also got that has a crappy ballpoint refill....Walah! You now have a nice, heavy metal pen like the Crestor one with a nice grip but have converted it into a gel pen.
try it out...
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that might be the most brilliant thing I've ever heard 😀👍:bow::bow::bow::bow:
 
USMELL said:
The cymbalta is the best write now, nice, study expensive looking pen, left it on the table in the ER for like 5 minutes and someone stole it 🙁
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ha...sucks, but it happens.

I also have the Tygacil pen, it's nice. Also the Zosyn pen that the same Wyeth people gave me is nice too.
 
mmag said:
All time favorite: Thrombin topical. It's a half length pen but one end is a LED pen light, other end is pen and the cap serves as a PDA sylus. It unfortunately got lost...
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There's a Marinol pen which is similar. I think it has two different colored inks, and the back end is a PDA stylus. A fellow student had this one and I definitely had lust in my heart for this pen.

The Xygris pen wrote well, but ran out awfully fast.
 
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