Crestor and the fibrate company
A free feed that used to make me cum in my pants at the Wellington clinical school would barely give me a semi now after being in the Rural programme. I have had so many fantastic free feeds I literally didn’t know where to start in regards to reviews. Instead I thought I would try something different and rate the food provided by the drug companies..
Oh the joys of drug companies. They may be a pain in the arse with their endless jabbering about patient outcomes or whatever but they do usually put on a good feed. They also give you free shit like staplers so not all is bad. I thought it was a good thing to start a ranking system between the drug companies on the basis of the free food that they provide. I aim to motivate the companies to provide practices with a higher quality of food which may in turn lead to their drug being prescribed. Hopefully I will get enough of these feeds to create a decent competitive list between the companies and host a masterchef show where drug reps are the contestants. The reps will be able to see this list in the Masterton Medical centre when there is enough on it.
The way a company will rank higher on this list will be if they provide food that is original, tasty and presented satisfactory. We are dealing with real Doctors now so they better have their shit together.
Since starting at the centre I have had two reps visit both providing food. The first company was trying to sell a new state of the art cholesterol drug which had fewer side effects apparently. I can’t prescribe anything so the reps marketing pitch was as useful as a new box of condoms in this town. I was also too busy sussing out the food on offer.
There were ham and cheese croissants, filled wholemeal rolls with either roast beef or ham, swirly buns with chocolate chips and Danishes. No drinks, no fruit, no staplers. The croissants were tasty but they could have been a bit more inventive with them. Ham and cheese is what I would expect from a flat in Dunedin. The rolls were satisfactory. Had lettuce meat and cheese with a bit of sauce but it was like a Pak and save roll not a New World roll.
The Danishes looked like they had a raw egg on them which intrigued me rather than repulse me. It did not taste of egg but just like a sweet apricot Danish but again just standard Danish nothing special.
The second company would have performed a lot better if they went to a kindergarden or a rest home at afternoon tea time. It was all sweet stuff-gingerbread men, ginger kisses, fudge and some cake with some grapes on the side. This was all on one plate, who did they think they are? Coming to a medical centre with one plate of food all in the sweet category! Would it kill them to have some chicken pasties or some crazy savoury dish as well? Plus they had two things in their already limited selection containing ginger. It likes serving potato bake with a side of mash potato to the flatties. Despite the narrow selection the stuff on offer was very tasty, and the staffs were particularly amused by the gingerbread men. I was not amused.
Since these are the first two drug companies feeds I have encountered there will be only a first and second place for today. So top of the list today will be Crestor and second will be the fibrate company. Crestor had more on offer and their food was presented nicer than the fibrate company who seem to have a shortage of plates.
The list so far
1. Crestor
2. Fibrate company (sorry will get the proper name soon)
Sorry for the delays between blogs I have been suffering from a bad case of writers block.
Larry
