Pills and perks: how addicted are the doctors?

THE staff discount which makes my house insurance policy just about competitive with the outside world got BIKed (benefit-in-kind) recently, making it no longer competitive, and come the next renewal I’ll vote with my feet.

I watched with interest last Monday night’s RTÉ Primetime report on the perhaps inappropriate relationship between GPs and drug companies, and how the company-supplied junkets might be interpreted by some as bribery, and how best, perhaps, to sever this link.

Do/should the GPs not pay BIK on all of these industry-supplied perks?