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...recent afternoon in Charleston, S.C., a food fight began again. Not a fight, really, but a disagreement among the leaders of the state's SCORxE program - designed to educate physicians with unbiased and accurate information about prescription drugs. The basic issue: Should representatives of the program bring the doctors pizza for lunch? Sarah Ball, the indefatigable pharmacist who leads SCORxE, says no. The whole point of SCORxE, after all, is to counteract Big Pharma's hard-sell drug marketing. But sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, says Dr. Robert Malcolm, a psychiatrist and adviser to SCORxE...
Sophie Robert, a pharmacist (like all other SCORxE reps), was visiting a family-medicine clinic in southern Charleston recently. The topic of the day: antidepressants. A family doctor at the clinic, Dr. Annette Anderson, spent about 15 minutes with Robert - far longer than she ever devotes to the six or so drug reps who show up unbidden every day. Anderson says she likes the idea of unbiased information delivered right to her office. She does, though, have one small suggestion for the program in the future. "Pizza," she says. "The staff would really like that...
...South Carolina may in fact be "gayer" than many suspect. Andrew Roberts, CEO of Amro Worldwide, visited South Carolina after the state's tourism board expressed interest in the campaign, and says he toured several gay venues, including largely gay sections of mainstream beaches, in Charleston, Hilton Head Island and Myrtle Beach. "A few people in South Carolina need to wake up to what's going on in their state," he says. "There are more gay bars along that coastal strip than there are in Vegas...
...that despite the Clinton campaign's pronouncements, West Virginia won't change that. He barely mounted a campaign in the state, in part because he wanted to start campaigning against John McCain, in part because he knew he was going to lose; he even said so in Charleston on Monday. While Obama has consistently outpolled Clinton among blacks, young voters and college graduates, Clinton has been more popular among less educated blue-collar whites of a certain age. That sounds a lot like the so-called Reagan Democrats whose defections have hurt the party so badly in previous elections...
PETER ROSENTHAL, CHARLESTON...