I have recently been hired to sell Erbitux and thankfully outside the infusion reaction belt. So I have a question that relates to that entire dynamic. IF erbitux was studied only in the area where there was 20 to 30% severe HSR and thus a much higher incidence of death associated with the very high levels of HSRs, Erbitux would have never been approved. So, we have reps selling something that would have been unapprovable (if only studied in this region). They are also given a sales goal and bonus for meeting that goal. Furthermore they have their own HSR belt bucket they compete within for their bonus. For those that erbitux helps it's a good therapy and I'm sure that is where the suits would go with this discussion. However reality shows that the RR are not far off the percent of patients that have life threatening HSRs. Am I misreading something here? Seems like something BMS would not want on 60 mins or on the front of Time Magazine. What is the reps degree of responsibility? This is an odd position for the company to take especially since they have so much verbiage about "integrity" in the materials i was told to read when I got hired
Integrity?! You work for BMS, there is no integrity here, only greed and selfish ambition. Boy were you deceived.
In case you haven't looked at the PI, there is a black box warning..ISI on every call...always risk vs. benefit analysis...more so in HSR belt. If you had such strong questions of corporate integrity, you should not have taken the job with BMS.
I didn't see any differentiation between HSRs in one region of the country vs the other. Did I miss something?
You should be worried. THANK GOD one of you has a brain and a sense of right and wrong. PLEASE do not take this job. I can tell you would have a hard time accepting that fact that you knowingly contributed to someone's death.
You are not in the belt -- why this long post. . it doesn't affect you. Cause in oncology, you take a regimen in the hopes that it will help you (the alternative is dying), so its a crap shoot.
Erbitux is an EVIL drug. And BMS is evil for not warning people. Since you know what happens using it - If you sell this drug you will go to hell and burn forever.
Why are you replying to a post from six years ago? BMS does not even promote the treatment anymore. stupid.
What the hell is the real benefit of Erbitux??? A month or two? At what ridiculous cost compared to multiple alternatives.. Why would an informed oncologist choose this drug????
if i was a trial,lawyer I would sue the hell out of BMS. They looked the other way regarding the infusion belt. Denial and it would go away. The PI never changed from 3% and should have been 25% in that belt. Death is a bitch. BMS didn't care.
