Government run health care

[RICHARD]

There is this as well.... See point #1 of "my plan". LOL

Don't bother posting until you announce your run for office.

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Here's one little interesting thing about 'old stuff' that sits around an operating room.

Should there be any 'product' that sits on the shelf because the tech is no longer used or has been replaced by something newer and better?

It gets donated to a charity where docs take it to third world countries and use it on poor people in the area,



A laparoscopy/laparotomy kits are sold to hospitals as a unit.

(Baxter) They got smart and began to sell a package that includes EVERYTHING you need to pluck an appendix or a gall bladder.

Problem? The hospitals are strapped and HAVE to buy the whole kit from the manufacturer.

They will break it open and use 60 to 70% of the kit, the rest is either thrown away or te individually packaged things are set aside for emergency usage.

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So, when you come in for a burst appendix, you are charged for the WHOLE KIT, no matter what is used.


I dislike the salespeople (med supplies and drugs) more than politicians.

I worked in the area where the sales reps would come in and almost offer themselves up in order to get a sale.

Those people were scumbags, liars and the biggest thieves on the planet.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I dislike the salespeople (med supplies and drugs) more than politicians.

I worked in the area where the sales reps would come in and almost offer themselves up in order to get a sale.

Those people were scumbags, liars and the biggest thieves on the planet.

Talk about shoot the messenger!! The sales reps are the scumbags, liars and thieves.

Okay...they could make a living some other way...but what about the folks who train them to do that? The ones who make the REALLY BIG bucks from the sales of those scumbags??? They aren't bigger thieves?

[cassiesmom]

I dislike the salespeople (med supplies and drugs) more than politicians.

I worked in the area where the sales reps would come in and almost offer themselves up in order to get a sale.

Those people were scumbags, liars and the biggest thieves on the planet.

Just don't even get me started on pharmaceutical sales people. (shiver) I was waiting in the doctor's office one morning when one of them came in. Talk about a schmooze-a-palooza! I felt like the rep was wasting my time more than my doctor's, since I was paying to see her, and he wasn't.

Then in my last job there was a weekly inservice for the docs and clinical staff with a catered lunch, sometimes a guest speaker, and usually a "commercial" for a particular product that had either been added to formulary recently or they wanted us to add. The nurses weren't too welcome at those because we didn't directly contribute to formulary decisions.

Big Pharma likes to have nurses as sales reps - somehow it seems to make the sales rep image less sleazy. I wouldn't do it if it was the last job on earth. I'd take bedpans over a sample case in a heartbeat. The receptionist for the doctor I used to see kept track of how many sales reps came in each day. She would allow a couple, and then put a sign on the door: No more sales rep calls today. The doctor I go to now is part of a teaching hospital so I don't believe they don't get sales rep calls at all.