Selling drugs - For rx, read ra-ra

These good-looking and well-upholstered girls have been recruited to sell drugs directly to doctors in the US. So far, several hundred former cheerleaders have been recruited. The girls are attractive, and have “enthusiastic, outgoing personalities”, a drug-company spokesman said.

No doubt true, but how much do they know about the drugs they’re selling? (New York Times, 28 November 2005

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