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tclAmockingbird

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    Comment #13997581

    This sort of hostility is why I keep quitting this damned site. Thanks for reminding me.

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    Comment #13997559

    Medical Science Liaison

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    Comment #13997094

    > There are many very cheap ways of keeping physicians up-to date, such as a conference presentation of the drug, followed by a Q&A session, with a recording freely available onlin…

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    Comment #13997061

    > FWIW the anecdotal experience of people I know in the health field in the US is that pharma sales reps know nothing about medicine, are hired for their sales / "relationship buil…

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    Comment #13996543

    > > And no, the sales and marketing in that article is not advertising alone. It's mostly sales people who go and visit medical professionals to talk about their products. > That's…

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    Comment #13845763

    > So, since 2012 this is now a requirement. It was a requirement before the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which is what is meant by "pre-AIA". You stated that "'best mode' is no…

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    Comment #13845344

    > The 'best mode' is not a requirement for a patent at all, you either have something patentable, or you do not Disclosing the best mode in the specification of an application is a…

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    Comment #13668052

    > I would not be surprised if others in their respective fields take a similar approach in other cult of personality topics (Uber, Elon, Apple, etc.). I no longer read the comments…

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    Comment #13656215

    Some who are vaccinated will still contract the disease. Some cannot be safely vaccinated because of preexisting medical conditions. For both groups, herd immunity provides additio…

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    Comment #13593255

    Yes, in my relative's case (being peds) it is Medicaid. It's a really frustrating thing, as a physician you want to treat everyone, but accepting Medicare and Medicaid can really h…

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    Comment #13592800

    Physician and staff salaries (outside of staff to manage insurance companies) are not what drive increasing medical costs. Most physicians don't make that much money, all things c…

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    Comment #13573713

    Do you believe that you have or can quickly acquire the specialized domain knowledge and experience necessary to accuately describe your conditions for the expert system? Do you th…

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    Comment #13456624

    One point not yet mentioned is that the Ferrari shape is assisted by the engine placement and drive configuration. A front-engine and front-drive Hyundai has too much packaged unde…

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    Comment #13285960

    When you do your write-up, I'd be interested to hear more about the mismatch between what you thought your clients wanted and what their eventual actions demonstrated they wanted. …

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    Comment #13216127

    The US has stricter emission limits for NOx than Europe, which are difficult to meet with diesels given locally available fuels. Meeting the limits in the US tends to require addin…

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    Comment #13216084

    The federal tax rebate is likely to phase out over the course of the Model 3 introduction: it isn't a given that the effective pricing will be be similar. It's also premature to co…

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    Comment #13191059

    This might be a good starting place, "Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank" ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619388 )