That's BS, i sell Nexium....but everyone knows the best 2 are Nexium and Prevacid. Aciphex has a national 8% marketshare, barely keeping ground ahead of zegerid!
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That's BS, i sell Nexium....but everyone knows the best 2 are Nexium and Prevacid. Aciphex has a national 8% marketshare, barely keeping ground ahead of zegerid!
I've worked at TAP for over 10 years and sell Prevacid. I've won more awards there, than all but 4 people. President's Club, National Achievments, you name it, I've won them. Get a clue, PPI's are a profitable class and there is a LOT of money to make selling them. If you say otherwise, you never sold one or didn't do well trying to sell one!
How do you bribe the insurance companies to cover your drug when omeprazole is OTC for $20 a month?
No one said that PPIs aren't profitable. Of course it's extremely profitable at the patient's expense. I think the message is that they are all too similar, and it is clearly in the patient's best interest to use the generic. Even Nexium's Package Insert says that Nexium is no better than Prilosec. 5 out of 8 studies comparing the 2 show a big N.S. Protonix has good hospital coverage, Nexium has 10,000 reps per territory, Prevacid has the Solutab, and Aciphex has nothing. Those are the differences. The efficacy of all the PPIs are superb. A % there or here means nothing. Bottomline, they will all work great. Why should a patient pay more, each month, if they all work great? So this dumb ass Tap rep can make a bonus and feel good. This is our job and we should be appreciative and do it well, but let's just be realistic about the PPI class. Put yourself in the patient's position.
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- Walking Eagle Nov 06, 2006 at 09:28: PM
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I am so glad you included your record of success and: otherwise your insignificant opinion would have even less impact. Was that liberal arts degree from Harvard or Yale?
The way Tap bonuses and calculates awards has nothing to do with hard work or talent. This Tap rep is a dick head and not a very bright rep.
You must be jealous of the fact I have won more Excaliburs than all but 4 people at TAP. You can keep trying to be as good as me, I hope that move you made to Santarus to sell Zegerid paid off!
Singulair - I am embarassed every time I talk about this. We have no data, and people can die of asthma.
Go sell in Canada...that's where you plan to go back to hun.
Hate to tell you this but as good as a rep thinks they are coverage rules the day
Hate to tell you this but as good as a rep thinks they are coverage rules the day
I have been a hospital clinical pharmacist for 17 years, and the drug classes that we have on therapeutic interchange have included PPIs since the day Prevacid went on the market. When a third one came on, we substituted for that because a PPI is a PPI is a PPI to a physician, pharmacist or nurse. Same thing with ARBs, thiazide diuretics and many, many other drug classes with only certain exceptions.
Just like a Yugo is to a Rolls Royce, a car is a car is a car to mechanics.
I'll bet they're not the same to the drivers (or patients taking drugs).
Hopefully, that wiped the smug look off your face you unethical, amoral, insensitive, uncaring pill pusher!!!!!!!!!
More info please....My child is on singulair...the allergist said is was a wonder drug....what am I missing?
That's not entirely true. Here's the deal most most insurance companies and PPI's.
1) Plan providers are requiring patients fail OTC Prilosec OTC and others first before they pay...then if a patient does fail...
2) The next course of therapy is generic omeprazole, which is basically the old, off patent, prescription strength Prilosec
You'll never be able to beat Prilosec OTC because Procter and Gamble spends millions and millions advertising this product and we spend about $2.75 on marketing. You'll never be able to win against generic omeprazole since it's priced 60% - 80% less than any of the branded Rx PPI's
So a patient fails OTC and generic....what next????
3) Nexium - very good formulary favorability
- plenty of samples for the docs
- BIG national advertising dollars
- Longer patent life
- Reps can carry other Astra Zeneca products
with them for a more valuable use of the doctor's
and office staff's time
So in a clouded me-too market where Aciphex and Prevacid clearly have the disadvantage, it is very impressive to see a rep that sells either product do well regardless of the the studies say about the PPI's
Tofranil-PM
Who sells a 50 year old TCA for insane price? a company who can't get any products that actually sell more then 20 mil a year.
Who sells a 50 year old TCA for insane price? a company who can't get any products that actually sell more then 20 mil a year.
A PPI is a PPI. A low dose is a low dose. A high dose is a high dose.
Nexium is Prilosec. The P.I. says so.
Physicians should do the right thing and never write Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix, or Aciphex. Oh yeah, that Zegerid thing too.
The TAP rep is always stirring up shit on the TAP board. You just have to ignore him. Nothing he writes is true.
Nexium is Prilosec. The P.I. says so.
Physicians should do the right thing and never write Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix, or Aciphex. Oh yeah, that Zegerid thing too.
The TAP rep is always stirring up shit on the TAP board. You just have to ignore him. Nothing he writes is true.
So should they go back to using Pepcid or Zantac? Would that make for sense to you? The TAP rep is a female, a lesbian in fact, and you are probably her posting pretending to be someone else because you know people are onto you!
even though i'm not a rep of this drug myself, i would have to say sanctura would be nearly impossible to sell. a 2X daily pill vs. once daily pills that doesn't have any distinguising characteristics or data? that would have sucked to launch.
Walking Eagle
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- Walking Eagle Nov 09, 2006 at 10:01: PM
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Not PPIs, H2 blockers along with Tagamet and Axid.