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How many people who have died from covid- 19 could have been saved by Xigris?
You are showing your age.How many people who have died from covid- 19 could have been saved by Xigris?
Wow! And here I felt alone in pondering that very same question; you must be knowledgeable about Xigris to make the connection. How did you come to that realization - what was your role here in the molecule?
OP here. I was one of the original Critical Care reps that launched Xigris. I stuck it out for three years before I could not take it any more and moved on. The entire Xigris debacle would make an excellent book, but it will likley never be written, as the powerful insiders who bungled pretty much every aspect of the drug after the PROWESS trial are loathe to speak candidly.
Self-reflection, admission of mistakes, and/or challenging anyone above your pay grade are not the sort of leadership behaviors we encourage here.
Those “powerful insiders” you speak of, are they even still around? My guess is they’re not.
OP here. I was one of the original Critical Care reps that launched Xigris. I stuck it out for three years before I could not take it any more and moved on. The entire Xigris debacle would make an excellent book, but it will likley never be written, as the powerful insiders who bungled pretty much every aspect of the drug after the PROWESS trial are loathe to speak candidly.
Two of my favorite quotes:
"We launched Prozac, I think we know what we're doing."
"You are not going to sell this product. The peer to peer programs are going to sell this product."
So, Elaine Sorg; who else?
This may have been before your time, but I especially enjoyed the FDA Advisory Board Meeting where an elderly gentleman got up during the public comments section, ranting against the molecule but without any coherent criticisms of the clinical studies, explaining:
"... it's like pornography, hard to define it, but you know it when you see it."
I'm assuming you believed in the drug, but disagreed with execution of both Marketing Strategy and the design of required Phase IV (open label) Clinical Trial?
How many people who have died from covid- 19 could have been saved by Xigris?
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.