tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post265742568920304841..comments2024-01-05T19:30:12.040+00:00Comments on Dr Jest's Caseblog: Smoke gets in your eyes.Doctor Jesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14446967855995345815noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-88520835406364645792007-01-27T13:01:00.000+00:002007-01-27T13:01:00.000+00:00Oh, isn't that dumb of me. I know that we don't ha...Oh, isn't that dumb of me. I <i>know</i> that we don't have DTC advertising in the UK but I'm so used to seeing nicotine therapy promoted everywhere alongside those OTC statins that I'm losing my appreciation for what is/not a prescription drug. Plus, I'm obviously spending far too much time in the US and getting confused.<br /><br />A particularly egregious piece of advertising in the US is the <a hef="http://theblogthatatemanhattan.blogspot.com/2006/11/hpv-test-piece-of-my-mind.html">HPV test</a>; TBTAM has produced an excellent write-up of the cynicism and marketing involved in this.<br /><br />Regards - ShingaShingahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126212762767721751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-54788793087441273392007-01-26T19:38:00.000+00:002007-01-26T19:38:00.000+00:00So sorry folks, couldn't get back to do the modera...So sorry folks, couldn't get back to do the moderator thing. I felt the need because of all the bloody Bingo Spam. I'll probably take it down again in a week or two.... <br /><br />z-- I'm always more than happy to see folk about their ailments whatever the trigger for their attendance. The thing that gets my goat here is the blatant "Advertorial" style of the drug release. Seems the companies would rather hype their product in the media than inform the professions, creating the demand in th ehope that we will meekly roll over and start dishing the stuff out willyy nilly and in an information vacuum. More worrying, since they've been doing it since even before Viagra, I assume some of my colleagues are doing so without bothering to ask too amny hard questions like "Will it work?" and "Does it kill people?"<br /><br />Steveg-- pcs with th eall important "performing mouse" patch.<br /><br />nostrum'-- thanks for the url's. I did manage to get the gist, but still feel it would have been nice to have had BNF data before the hype began... <br /><br />Oh, and take a couple of aspirin and call me back if it isn't better in the morning!<br /><br />wendz-- when the time is right and the will is there I agree entirely. When it's not, no ammount of supplemental chemistry is likely to have any lasting impact. You're so right about NTAP.<br /><br />suze'-- no they do it in the car park and assume we can't see tham. I reckon we have our own little car park sized ozone hole.<br /><br />shinga-- "I saw this bloke on the telly wot tried it." was what I was told. I think there was a slot on Richard and Judy or similar. they still aren't allowed to directly advertise to the public, so you get "Health Features" on the telly and in the Daily Mail instead. And that's journalism so it must be o.k.<br /><br />Unconscious and vented is a pretty extreme form of cold turkey to be sure. But terribly effective IME.Doctor Jesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14446967855995345815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-13717688557895183702007-01-26T15:43:00.000+00:002007-01-26T15:43:00.000+00:00It's splendid that people are taking HMG's message...It's splendid that people are taking HMG's message so much to heart. Generations of children with ENT problems or families complaining that they couldn't taste their food for the smoke didn't work but enforce a public ban and they are waiting with baited breath in their GP's surgery.<br /><br />Of course, in the US, various cities are introducing a ban on smoking in cars that are carrying children. Which is taking the public ban a little further.<br /><br />Has the drug been promoted on <i>actual</i> day-time TV or the advertising - just interested?<br /><br />I've no idea whether or not this drug works - one can only hope. The only thing that worked for my mother was going cold turkey - but she was unconscious and on a ventilator for several weeks so she reckoned that this was better than most people's experience of cold turkey.Shingahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126212762767721751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-37000977225284379342007-01-26T09:19:00.000+00:002007-01-26T09:19:00.000+00:00They smoke in your consulting room?
How rude!They smoke in your consulting room? <br />How rude!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-40882429082012785562007-01-25T17:56:00.000+00:002007-01-25T17:56:00.000+00:00I think the correct form is Tibbs'.
If I stop smo...I think the correct form is Tibbs'.<br /><br />If I stop smoking it'll be because I have decided to and it'll be cold turkey. Drugs? Pah! Willpower. That's all. Been there and it IS entirely do-able. Must just remember, even after years of not-smoking, to NTAP*....that's the downfall of all ex-smokers.<br /><br />*Never Take Another Puff.y.Wendy.yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10630727119097764058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-40953027716640996492007-01-25T09:52:00.000+00:002007-01-25T09:52:00.000+00:00Nostrumdammit has already been fielding requests f...Nostrumdammit has already been fielding requests for information from his own employers. Herewith are some links which may shed some degree of light on the situation.<br />I'm reminded of the snappy pop song of the late 60's by the Singing Postman "Have you got a light ? ". However I have no idea why that memory has surfaced. Perhaps I should pop out for a swift glass of port to get me through the morning.<br /><br />http://www.druginfozone.nhs.uk/Record%20Viewing/viewRecord.aspx?id=568461<br /><br /><br />Pfizer Schedule of Product Characteristics<br />http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/industry/default.asp?page=displaydoc.asp&documentid=19045<br /><br /><br />Patient Information Leaflet<br />http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/industry/default.asp?page=displaydoc.asp&documentid=19042<br /><br />regards<br />Nostrumdammit<br />PS : this may be a second attempt at posting my comment. I'm really not well today you know.Nostrumdammithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03866906406901736951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-80160613630955051782007-01-25T07:54:00.000+00:002007-01-25T07:54:00.000+00:00"But nowhere on our state-of-the-art clinical syst..."But nowhere on our state-of-the-art clinical system with prescribing support software, bells, whistles and unicycling performing mice*"<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />Emis??ntsc01steveghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613989768301181748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-39502349612932132022007-01-24T21:02:00.000+00:002007-01-24T21:02:00.000+00:00For this very reason, I avoid the doctors' surgery...For this very reason, I avoid the doctors' surgery in January. I suspect I would not be taken seriously. <br /><br />I also don't go if my ailment or concern has received any publicity in the last few weeks, for the same reason.<br /><br />I am a physical wreck. But I still have Dignity.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.com