What a country! Free narcotics!!!!

I went to the big yearly family medicine convention today, held in Ramat Gan. Was very nice, got to meet a lot of people in my field.

Observation #1) I thought that I had seen doctors go after drug-rep junk before. Oh no. Never had a I seen such a display as today. Granted, I threw myself right into it. I now have enough highlighters to paint our new house. But still, I mean, come on, have some pride.......

Observation #2) Indeed, as the title goes, free narcotics. They gave me some meds with codeine in it as a sample. Which in reality is not big deal, but that would never happen in the US. I found a nice bit of irony in that pretty much next to where they were handing out the codeine, there was a stand for the drug buprenorhpine, which is used to wean people off of opoids/heroin that they are addicted to.....at least the person that set out where the tables would be for the drug reps had a sense of humor!