Re: Bioidenticals
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Tue May 18 15:41:36 2004
Yeah, but in those cases, people don't "blame" their cancers on
"natural" substances or bioidenticals. They are willing to accept that
sometimes people get cancer for no good reason. Unfortunately, on any
prescriptions drugs, the assumption will always be that the meds caused
the problem.
On May 18, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
> I say spread the wealth. Are they going to sue YOU for the breast
> cancer that they got ‘from the bioidenticals the pharmacist
> recommended?’…I think not.
>
>
>
> Funny, but if breast cancer is found once they switch to a
> ‘medication’ they chose, who can they blame but themselves. WOW!
> Americans actually taking responsibility for their own stupidity; it
> would be like a dream come true.
>
>
>
> Richard Chudacoff, MD
>
>
>
> There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who
> are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel,
> man-eating idol, lucre.
>
> Edward Dahlberg
>
>
>
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of DR
> GORDON GOLDMAN
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: RE: Bioidenticals
>
>
>
> A call to the state board of pharmacy may be helpful. Failing that,
> .45 cal works well.
>
>
>
> Gordon
>
> ainsron <ainsron@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Send all your patients to a different pharmacy and tell the pharmacist
> why you are doing it! L
>
>
>
> Ronald E. Ainsworth
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Lynn
> D. Montgomery, M.D.
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: Bioidenticals
>
>
>
> Listers,
>
> I am not a huge "snake oil" salesperson when it come bioidenticals,
> but I will either new start or switch patients to them if they
> request. I use the same talked echoed by others here on the list,
> assuring that the patient understands that estrogen is likely estrogen
> when it comes to risk and that there are no studies that have included
> these agents.
>
>
>
> Last week, after calling in prescriptions for a patient who wanted to
> switch over, I got a call from the patient. She had gone to the
> pharmacy and was told by the pharmacist there that I didn't know what
> I was doing with regard to bioidenticals and that she knew
> significantly more. She then told the patient that I had prescribed
> the wrong medication and they needed to be changed.
>
>
>
> Has anybody heard that you have to "wean" a patient off Premphase
> before starting another preparation?
>
>
>
> Since then, I have been repeatedly counting to 10, trying to cool off
> and decide what to do...
>
> Lynn
>
>
>
> Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.
>
> Maternal-Fetal Medicine, OB/GYN
>
> Rocky Mountain Women's Health
>
> 2835 Fort Missoula Rd., Suite 303
>
> Missoula, Montana, 59804
>
> 406-549-0978
>
> fax 406-549-0987
>
> e-mail: apgar10@montanadsl.net
>
>
>
************************************************************************
****
Charlie Chambers
Hood River, OR
cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
"Almost anything you do will seem insignificant but it is very important
that you do it....You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
-- Mahatma Ghandi.
************************************************************************
*******
|
|
