[CQ-Contest] Sonata for sleep on demand, WARNING!

[W8HO Michigan]

Hello to all,

As a physician, I must raise my voice in opposition to this practice.  Many 
drug companies advertise all kinds of wonderful properties of their 
products.  This may well be one of them.  We won't know for sure for at 
least 2 years.  Just look at the recent Fen-Phen diet medicine disaster 
that damaged so many.

Many physicians (if not most) practice the habit of not prescribing any new 
drug until it has been on the market for at least 2 years. (This does not 
apply where life/death issues are in the balance and there is no other 
choice).  This practice of waiting to prescribe new drugs prevents our 
patients from being put at risk by these new drugs that may have 
undiscovered side-effects.  This practice of waiting also keeps us out of 
lawsuits like the one for Fen-Phen.

I am fairly sure that most people believe that the FDA would not allow a 
drug to be put on the market if it has not gone through complete testing 
for safety and effectiveness.  The fact is that new laws have eased the 
time from development to market so that it is now much shorter, and the 
testing less intense.  For many drugs this is adequate, but for some it is 
not.  Would you want to be the one that discovers that a new drug on the 
market has a severe side effect?  I sure don't want one of my patients put 
in that position.

73 de Frank W8HO

 >
 > Another Rx drug that comes in handy is "Sonata," 10 mg.
 >
 > Take one, and in about 30 minutes you fall asleep for about
 > four hours. Then, upon awakening, there is no residual
 > effect.
 >
 > It's especially effective for going to sleep on an airplane, or
 > on other rare occasions when four hours of sleep is in order.
 >
 > Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
 > Yuma, AZ
 > K6LL at juno.com
 >
 > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:50:19 -0500 "Barry " <w2up at mindspring.com>
 > writes:
 >>
 >> Along Jose´'s line...
 >> 1. Any suggestions how to nap pre-contest? I've never been able to
 >> fall asleep at will during the day (unless I'm in a very boring
 >> conference)
 >
 >
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>From K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com  Fri Dec  7 03:56:07 2001
From: K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com (K0HB H. Brakob)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 03:56:07 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Second operator
Message-ID: <005701c17ed3$1bddbb40$9dd9143f at bigguy>



http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stories/2001/12/05/100/?nc=1

73, de Hans, K0HB


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