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Post by cretin11 on Feb 28, 2019 8:04:23 GMT -5
Been to Vegas plenty recently (though admittedly I haven’t played the nickel slots recently). You have to work pretty hard to lose more playing penny slots than at dollar slots! But what you say is true about breaking even in LV. It’s all about the entertainment value, at least for us amateurs. And Sports, you might get free drinks at the nickel slots, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us do!  |
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Post by dh4mizzou on Feb 28, 2019 8:22:59 GMT -5
I often wonder how many Afrezza prescriptions my doc is prescribing. My results are off the charts positive but he is OLD school and IMHO, unwilling to change (lazy!). In fact after 3+ years on Afrezza and having a full blood panel w a 5.6 A1C and me reitterating to him once again that Afrezza has changed my life....he seems disinterested. In fact he called "us" " pioneers". This is an endo with probably 40+ years at a major, major hospital. I've been seeing him for 24-years. It truly is a WTFunk.
Sad but this guy doesn't even understand what he is saying. Doesn't he understand that the implied definition of a PIONEER is one who leads the way? If he truly understood just what kind of pioneers you really were he should be jumping into prescribing Afrezza with both feet.
Me thinks this dude should just go ahead and retire now and let someone with some fresh thinking take his place.
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Post by olebob1 on Feb 28, 2019 9:00:37 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Feb 28, 2019 12:56:31 GMT -5
One of the slides showed that the avg number of prescriptions written per prescribing doctor was something like 5 or 6. I don't remember the time frame (week, month,?) Does this mean a few doctors are writing almost all the prescriptions and most are writing almost none? I would think a vdex affiliated doctors would be writing dozens per week. Or are all 1200 (?) doctors writing just a few? Is this bad news if all the doctors are just testing the waters with afrezza and aren't fully on board yet? Or is this good news because the doctors can quickly increase the number of prescriptions once they get great results from their initial patients? I can tell you from my experience launching new products that many doctors are very quick to try and very slow to adopt new products. It is often easy, very easy, to get a physician to try something new especially if there is high dissatisfaction with the available alternatives. However, the pattern that is often evident is that they will put two or three patients on the new product and then stop, just stop, for a long period of time until they see how it works out. If the doctor is happy with the results after six months or so, they will begin moving their other patients to the new product. I say six months, but that can be faster or slower depending on the course of the disease; some products exhibit improvement almost immediately and some over time so it depends on the therapy. I have even seen this behavior in clinical trials where an investigator that "promises" that they can contribute 20 patients to a study but will only contribute a few at first. If those work out, then the rest follow as promised but if the first ones are a failure they don't enroll any more patients and move on to the next trial. The problem is that often the early patients are the worst of the lot (non-adherent, failed other therapies, rapidly progressing disease, etc.) and those are the ones least likely to show a benefit from any drug. On the upside, if you can treat those early patients successfully then getting the rest on the therapy is fairly simple. |
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Post by parrerob on Feb 28, 2019 14:41:13 GMT -5
youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQThis video is very famous and used in many leadership training Pioneer then first followers....
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Post by akemp3000 on Feb 28, 2019 14:56:09 GMT -5
youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQThis video is very famous and used in many leadership training Pioneer then first followers.... Enjoyed the video but in all fairness, a second video should be required viewing as well. One showing the "lone nut leader" not being followed but being led away in a straight jacket |
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Post by mytakeonit on Feb 28, 2019 15:00:29 GMT -5
So parrerob is the show ... akemp3000 came in to dance ... and I am the first follower. Wow!
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