Confessions Of A Pharmaceutical Sales

Gwen Olsen a former sales representative for a number of pharmaceutical companies confessed her 15 year involvement in the drug industry. With some eye-opening inside information she revealed how drugs were ‘pushed on’ customers and how it greatly affected their health and well-being.
Now a health activist, author and speaker, Gwen devotes her time to exposing big pharma’s dark side linked to dangerous prescription drugs and medical mistakes bolstered by greed and conflicting interests. For safety and welfare concern everyone needs to check out her story.
Her suspicions that things weren’t right started when many years ago as a rep she wasn’t getting satisfactory answers to her critically intelligent questions from big pharma. After doing her own due diligence she discovered things she should have been told.
In the early days, believing in the hype related to big pharma’s marketing and the claims made related to the drugs, she was keen to achieve record sales. She would know the buying habits of certain doctors, what category of drugs to best approach them with, what sort of volumes to expect in orders, whether or not they bought from competitors and whether or not they were easy to convince selling a new product or sceptical…
One time, she approached a doctor who frequently prescribed to geriatrics which for Gwen meant potentially high sales. However, the doctor was described as a ‘late adopter sceptic’ and had a rule that he would not use new drugs until good evidence was available for their efficacy and that they were free of side effects, which could take a year.