Drug companies run a string of girls

The New York Times reported Monday that pharmaceutical companies are recruiting their sales staff from the ranks of female college cheerleaders.

Why? Apparently because Playboy models want too much money.

The companies insist that the cheerleaders make ideal salespeople because of their great personalities.

The job entails calling on physicians, the majority of whom are men, and displaying enough personality to persuade the doctor to prescribe the salesgirl's drug to his patients.

The persuasion takes place right in the doctor's office. Now you know why there's a sink in every room.

Alas, the New York Times has exposed the fun and ruined it for everybody. Soon drug companies will be forced to hire sober and serious people to dispense information about the risks and benefits of new drugs. Soon doctors will be spending their office hours seeing their patients instead of keeping them waiting. Soon the cash-starved love bunnies and their sleazy medical friends can apply for work in the sex industry, where people do an honest day's work.

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