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Physician | Founder & CEO, SoMeDocs | Healthcare Tech Advisor | Medscape Top 20 Physician Influencers

Vending machine with scrubs meant for pharma reps. Who knew! What are your thoughts on this, as I came across this post, complaining about them. I’d imagine this is done for hygienic purposes - ie, keeping germs from your clothing off of patient floors and decreasing exposure to patients in general. Doctors do usually get these for free. So question is: is this being done because the hospital is clever entrepreneurially (charging what I assume is the pharmaceutical company and not the rep themselves) or because it is a necessity? Who should bear the cost of the rental and wash?

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Executive Clinical Representative at Teleflex

Are you kidding me 🤦🏼♂️

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Amber Yates, MD, FAAP

Medical Affairs Leader | Sickle Cell Subject Expert | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

5mo

Interesting. Reps for device companies do scrub into surgery. I’ve never thought about where they got their scrubs. They don’t work for the hospital. Costs the hospital if they walk off with scrubs. I get it.

Bo Agan

Employer Retirement Plan Specialist - Enhancing Employer and Employee Financial Futures

5mo

Who sholuld bear the cost of a new vending machine with proper design? 🤣

David Potter, CPT-NASM, CRNA, MBA

✝️ Christian, POTTER🇺🇸FITNESS Certified Personal Trainer NASM-CPT, US Navy Vet, Nurse Anesthetist, Dean’s Distinguished Service Award Winner, Opinions are my own.

4mo

These unique paper “vendor” scrubs allow sales reps to be easily identified as sales reps and not hospital employees. This has been a welcome development in most hospitals.

Marcella Wilson MD, DLFAPA

Psychiatrist @ Marcella M. Wilson, M.D. | Board Certified

4mo

They loaded up docs with full on group lunches in the past, so paying for their own self-identifying paper scrubs shouldn’t be such a huge deal really, right?🙃

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