nb: should read - "missed by 'uneducated' GP's " I am constantly amazed at the gall and gumption of drug companies!
fee >-- Original Message -- >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:42:21 +1000 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] BEACH thinks computers don't help GP quality >To: "General Practice Computing Group Talk" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > > >The RN said that Pfizer thinks that many patients without high cholesterol >are missing out on their statins because they are in the new qualifying risk >groups which were announced at the beginning of the year. > >A whole new market - missed by uneducated GPs - Pfizer seeks to rectify this. > >fee > >>-- Original Message -- >>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:04:54 +1000 >>From: David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] BEACH thinks computers don't help GP quality >>Reply-To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> >> >> >>Oliver Frank wrote: >>> David Guest wrote: >>> >>>> If this is true, it would be only the second time, as far as I am >>>> aware, of HCN allowing hooks into their software. >>> >>> As Basil Fawlty said to the German guest who he thought was asking >>> whether he had to supply his own food, "Not necessary!". >>No Oliver. >> >>If I understand Fee correctly, you type 'Fra, Oli' in the patient >>selection box and a message pops up saying "Give this patient Lipitor, >>you loser", or words to that effect. >> >>So Pfizer is happy. HCN is happy. The patients aren't all that happy. >>They think you are in the pocket of the druggies. The GPs aren't happy. > >>They didn't even get a free lunch out of it. The Feds aren't all that >>happy because the bill for statins just doubled. >> >>The bottom line, however, is that death from heart disease is lower. So > >>it's all good. >> >>David >>_______________________________________________ >>Gpcg_talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
