Is there still a place for the mighty pharmaceutical sales force?
For the better part of the last decade, the diminishing role of the pharmaceutical sales representative as an integral part of the pharmaceutical sales model has been a hot topic. In the last six months, news of sales reps being banned from a large, acute-care hospital system made industry waves. A week later, pharma sales reps were under attack in Australia when a group of physicians banded together to start a “No Advertising Please” campaign designed to keep reps out.
