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brileigh
@brileigh
💉 I follow a dermatologist on social who shared how injectable providers pressure clinics to overspend on fillers. They had a drug company tell them they had to spend minimum $250K by year-end w/ <60 days notice just to maintain their “status.” They were already in debt from school, self-funding their new clinic, and had already purchased some injectables earlier in the year. Basically they were saying how this leads to more injections being pushed on patients, not just because of beauty standards, but because clinics are trying to break even while reps profit. Curious on FC’s thoughts. What do you think about the role of injectable providers in shaping beauty trends vs. just meeting demand? Is this an ethical gray area bc it’s profit driven? Also I feel like this makes it hard to find a derm I will trust to tell me no instead of trying to get a quick buck.
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jon
@jonbray.eth
it's totally an ethically grey area, but not necessarily because it's profit driven, I think you can still do what's best for patients while also pursuing a profit. imo the big ethical dilemma is that they are creating demand that isn't there in order to meet arbitrary sales goals. unfortunately that is a problem in pretty much every facet of healthcare medical sales goals need to be more closely aligned with the needs of patients and commissions scaled according to positive patient outcomes, not just volume I used to work in pathology, and even medical diagnostics are influenced by this. some pathologists (especially derm imo) see patients as well, and their diagnostic decisions can be influenced by whatever treatment they tend to prescribe, often because of sales rep pressure. creating a pretty sinister self-fulfilling prophecy
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