[Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-07 Thread Marshall Mendonza
John Gomes: Whilst I agree about our FDA, I would not be too sure about the stuff available in our Pharmacies! You all may have heard about the Ranbaxy case in USA and even a sincere and experienced Raj Vaidya of Hindu Pharmacy says these days he frankly couldn't vouch for most of the stuff availab

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-06 Thread kurtferns
Sent from Samsung tablet Original message From "Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão" Date: 09-06-2014 15:10 (GMT-05:00) To goanet@lists.goanet.org,John Gomes ,"Dr. José Colaço" Subject Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style Thank you Mr. John

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
Rather than cautious optimism, what is more prudent is caution or cautiousness. This has been true all along throughout history. The good thing about the present day is that independent bodies can verify the authenticity of the active ingredients in any pharmaceutical formulation in terms their

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-06 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
johngome...@yahoo.in; goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style > > On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:50 AM, John Gomes wrote: > "Whilst I agree about our FDA, I would not be too sure about the stuff > available in our Pharmacies! You all may have heard abo

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-06 Thread Jose
On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:50 AM, John Gomes wrote: "Whilst I agree about our FDA, I would not be too sure about the stuff available in our Pharmacies! You all may have heard about the Ranbaxy case in USA and even a sincere and experienced Raj Vaidya of Hindu Pharmacy says these days he frankly could

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-06 Thread John Gomes
Whilst I agree about our FDA, I would not be too sure about the stuff available in our Pharmacies! You all may have heard about the Ranbaxy case in USA and even a sincere and experienced Raj Vaidya of Hindu Pharmacy says these days he frankly couldn't vouch for most of the stuff available or he

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style ( response to Savio Figueiredo)

2014-09-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
QUOTE Thank you for your post. I am absolutely delighted that you (like me) believe that Goans are very honest professionals, esp in comparison to their counterparts on the rest of the subcontinent. UNQUOTE ..Josebab Colaco Please see Josebab's post appended below for the entire context. Con

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style ( response to Savio Figueiredo)

2014-09-05 Thread Jose
On Sep 5, 2014, at 2:50 AM, Savio Figueiredo wrote via Cecil Pinto " (1) India produces the best & cheapest medicines in the whole world. (2) Why on earth would someone wish to bring in medicines in container loads and sell them cheap in Goa ? (3) This may have been happening 40 years back wh

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-05 Thread Cecil Pinto
A response from my friend Savio Figueiredo who can be contacted on rendeep1 at yahoo dot com - I do not wish to get personal. I googled Mr Roland Francis and have noted that he is based in Toronto Canada.I dont know whether he is from the Pharma field . On the other hand I am a Pharmacy

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-04 Thread Dr. J. Colaco
Dears, I have excerpted some points from the discussion thus far. My comments follow at the foot [A] Shiv Kumar wrote: 1: Last week, I was in Goa for my business. I met a few of people from the audit departments of a few pharma companies whose plants are in Goa. 2: After building a good rappor

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is always prudent to follow the notion that truth is somewhere in between. It is not hard to find evidence for the belief that there are corrupt pharmacists, doctors, businessmen and financial analysts anywhere, and at any time in history. The question is only of scale, and of the causes that

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-02 Thread Roland Francis
Ok Cecil as you requested, I am judging for myself: I do not agree with your pharmacist friend Savio Figueiredo that Shiv Kumar's (the journalist) account is one of fiction. Savio's arguments against Shiv's observations consist only of: 1. There are many ethical and honest pharmacists who will

[Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-02 Thread Cecil Pinto
I read the report below by Shiv Kumar and found it did not quite ring true. I asked a knowledgeable and experienced pharmacist friend to comment. Both viewpoints are below: Judge for yourself. Cheers! Cecil Shiv Kumar - Journalist: Last week, I was in Goa for my business. I met

Re: [Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-09-01 Thread Jose
Dear Shiv, Two quick points: 1: Is it really "business of medicine, Goa style" OR "business of medicine, India style"? 2: Thank Goodness for the "Librashun"..Would you not agree? jc suggested references: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091006700.html

[Goanet] business of medicine, Goa style

2014-08-31 Thread Shiv Kumar
>From another mailing list that deals with specific stocks: Last week, I was in Goa for my business. I met a few of people from the audit departments of a few pharma companies whose plants are in Goa. After building a good rapport, one auditor confided with me that their people routinely fake tes