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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4325917"]I was with William H. Rorer Pharmaceuticals back in 1982 and 1983. We had 350 reps nationwide and did fine. Each rep called on hospitals (including hospital pharmacy), private practice primary care and specialist physicians, retail pharmacies, pharmacy chain accounts and drug wholesalers. We did this on a 6 week rotation. The only rep overlap was if a doctor had multiple offices with offices happening to be in two territories.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had multiple products that we promoted including:</p><p><br /></p><p>Slo-Bid, Slo-Phyllin (both theophyllines), Maalox, Maalox T/C, Maalox Plus, Ascriptin, Ascriptin A/D, Parapectolin and Emetrol. Maybe one or two more, but the names escape me right now. This was before managed care and we did just fine with 350 reps, all the accounts we covered and the products we had. It was nice to keep busy and there was little/no time to goof off. So given the current marketplace and the products that Novartis is projected to be promoting a year from now, 400 is maybe still a bit rep heavy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given changes in the severance plan, the "Golden Ticket", if you want to call it that, looks a bit tarnished. Anyone left today should seriously look to get out as soon as possible because of that and all the additional grief they will be putting you through.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4325917"]I was with William H. Rorer Pharmaceuticals back in 1982 and 1983. We had 350 reps nationwide and did fine. Each rep called on hospitals (including hospital pharmacy), private practice primary care and specialist physicians, retail pharmacies, pharmacy chain accounts and drug wholesalers. We did this on a 6 week rotation. The only rep overlap was if a doctor had multiple offices with offices happening to be in two territories. We had multiple products that we promoted including: Slo-Bid, Slo-Phyllin (both theophyllines), Maalox, Maalox T/C, Maalox Plus, Ascriptin, Ascriptin A/D, Parapectolin and Emetrol. Maybe one or two more, but the names escape me right now. This was before managed care and we did just fine with 350 reps, all the accounts we covered and the products we had. It was nice to keep busy and there was little/no time to goof off. So given the current marketplace and the products that Novartis is projected to be promoting a year from now, 400 is maybe still a bit rep heavy. Given changes in the severance plan, the "Golden Ticket", if you want to call it that, looks a bit tarnished. Anyone left today should seriously look to get out as soon as possible because of that and all the additional grief they will be putting you through.[/QUOTE]
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