E-drug: Re: No Free Lunch (cont'd)
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We all know that the initiative to educate many more family physicians in
the USA started in 1993 through this year. We are graduating more family
physicians,
osteopaths, PA's and NP's than any time in our nations history. PA's and
NP's have increased by 45,000 between 1993-1999. Drugs that are more
sophisticated launched within the last three years-ace2 inhibitors, proton
pump inhibitors, viagra, the AIDS products, tamoxifen, the semi-synthetic
estrogens, the new products for MS, Azheimers, epilepsy and Parkinsons just
to name a few. The shift to primary care means more detailing per prescriber
as a pediatrician would only prescribe one Pfizer product (Zithromax) but as
a generalist would
prescribe 9 or 10 products (Viagra, Cardura, Norvasc, Procardia, Zoloft,
etc...). I notice that one of my submissions was not posted. Is this a censored
list?
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Blaine P. Carmichael, PA-C
bpcarmichael@stic.net
C0-Moderator, PRIMARYPA Clinical discussion List
VP Association of Family Practice Physician Assistants
Disease Detection and Prevention National CME Conference
San Antonio, Texas November 4-7, 1999
AFPPA Job Bank: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/yngdoc/
[Note from moderator: Not sensored, but edited. And the moderator has the
right to reject postings which are not found to be within the aim of this
network (see our website: www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html), or decide
to limit a debate, etc. In your case I have posted 4 mails from you, which
are all I have received. This last one I felt tempted to reject as it can be
of no interest to a majority of our subscribers - our main target is
professionals in developing countries. Kirsten Myhr]
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