Go to Personal Poetry
- Add a comment
- Go to Pool
This is flat out excellent! sam
posted by
sam444
on April 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM
| link to this | reply
Re: p.s. - Thank you for the link to your website and article
I would strike at the heart of big pharma and take away their "right" to own patents, which is clearly unconstitutional. At the same time, the creation of a medical curriculum and certification process tightly integrated with the municipal medical and education departments would not only provide doctors unburdened by the medical school loans, but a distributed pharmaceutical research system. In short, I intend to reduce pharmaceuticals to manufacturing-only companies while returning research to academia.
posted by
cpklapper
on April 23, 2010 at 9:17 AM
| link to this | reply
p.s. - Thank you for the link to your website and article
Very well thought out and written. I agree with most everything you state - it is time for the U.S. to grow up and away from everything for elitist profiteering and join the rest of the civilized world. I wonder how you view big pharma and their motivations? On one hand, I respect and appreciate the advances in medication therapies they lead the way in, but on the other hand I know the difference between their research and development costs and final market prices are unbelievably huge and manipulated for an overbearing profit model - have you seen the drug rep.s flocking and gifting at your doctor's office lately? Almost looks like bribery and definitely sounds like it - I was on an elevator once with a couple of reps, kind of tucked into a corner, not paying much attention to the conversation, until they started talking about their "quotas" for the number of prescriptions written (each doctor expected to meet certain numbers every week) and how much they had to wine and dine the doctors to begin building mutually beneficial relationships; free vacations were apparently the new hook at that time and had to include the doctor's family. The look on their faces when I stepped between them to get off at my floor was priceless..:) And the way the FDA has been taken over by them; side effects and safety be damned!
posted by
Katray2
on April 23, 2010 at 6:20 AM
| link to this | reply
Re: btw: I love the hot dry California weather
I loved the cooler weather of Pacific Grove.
posted by
cpklapper
on April 23, 2010 at 6:10 AM
| link to this | reply
Re: can I swim away with you too?
Why,
Tzippy, I did not know you felt that way!
posted by
cpklapper
on April 23, 2010 at 6:09 AM
| link to this | reply
Re:
Yes,
RomaKay, a very refreshing cool it is!
posted by
cpklapper
on April 23, 2010 at 6:06 AM
| link to this | reply
Excellent!
posted by
Katray2
on April 23, 2010 at 5:57 AM
| link to this | reply
Re:
And thank you for stopping by and commenting. My hot weather experience had been DC summers, especially August: 90 degrees with 90% humidity. I became acclimated enough to survive it but never enjoyed it.
posted by
cpklapper
on April 23, 2010 at 5:54 AM
| link to this | reply
btw: I love the hot dry California weather
posted by
Tzippy
on April 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM
| link to this | reply
can I swim away with you too?
posted by
Tzippy
on April 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM
| link to this | reply
very cool indeed!
posted by
RomaKay
on April 22, 2010 at 8:02 PM
| link to this | reply
I finally learned to love the heat. It took a few years in Mexico for that to happen. But now, back in the USA, I am learning to enjoy the cooler weather again. Thanks for stopping by.
posted by
mariposa75
on April 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM
| link to this | reply
Re:
Thank you, Elyse. It is something that I had to post right away before the words left me.
posted by
cpklapper
on April 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM
| link to this | reply
Re:
And thanks for dropping by and comment here,
Syracuse_Pike.
posted by
cpklapper
on April 22, 2010 at 12:45 PM
| link to this | reply
Oh but this is 'stunning' ~ Bravo CPK ~ Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on April 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM
| link to this | reply
Thanks for dropping by and yeah, *laughing aloud and nodding*, you are sooo right.. I tried writing and there seemed more marks than words...
posted by
Syracuse_Pike
on April 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM
| link to this | reply