Dr. A is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement. His local detail representative tells him of a hip and knee course with an excellent faculty and a hands-on workshop. The representative offers to pay Dr. A's travel and lodging expenses as well as a $1000 stipend to compensate him for the time away from his practice.
The local detail representative offers to buy Drs. B and C lunch at a nearby restaurant in order to discuss her company's new fracture-fixation system.
Dr. D is invited by a detail representative to a dinner lecture given by a prominent physician. The representative offers to donate $100 to Dr. D's medical school if she attends the dinner.
A representative for a spinal instrumentation manufacturer offers Dr. E a trip, with all expenses paid, to attend a course on fixation techniques for the treatment of unstable spinal fractures if the physician will use the company's fixation system.