Comments on: Meet Emma, Your New Pharmacist

By: Incorporates A Small

Incorporates A Small — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:50:26 +0000

Incorporating Your Small Business…

Having a self-sufficient business is probably one of the most common of dreams. Even more so incorporating small businesses into big businesses with larger perspectives and larger visions….

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:08:39 +0000

I see this as yet another object of control for medical professionals to divert accountability. As soon as the maker incorporates “download” capabilities, doctors can require patients to bring “compliance results” to their next office visit. If the patient hasn’t taken his medication EXACTLY AS PRESCRIBED, the doctor can shift responsibility directly to the patient for less than optimum outcomes. (”You forgot your a.m. statin last Wednesday–that’s why your cholesterol is still so high!)

Doctors have long used A1c tests to divert responsibility for poor treatment and poor insulin choice back onto the shoulders of the non-compliant diabetic. The advent of downloadable monitor results further encouraged doctors to berate diabetic patients for poor compliance. Doctors–like Big Pharma–are always looking to blame the disease or blame the patient.

By: John Mack

John Mack — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:39:51 +0000

Ed-

Thanks for quoting me.

The way the company plays upon our fears of medication errors and carefully crafts the BS to make a bogus benefit statement is reprehensible, IMHO.

Besides, this device is hardly the iPOD of telemonitoring! What we need is a Steve Jobs in the medical informatics arena!

By: Melody

Melody — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:30:31 +0000

If we, as consumers/patients allow Big Pharma and its adjuncts and enablers to continue “dumbing down” the population, I guess we will be getting no more (or less) than we deserve. Eventually Big Pharma can dispense a daily dose of “mind control” medication, and we will more quietly serve our corporate masters as “ultimate consumers.”