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Don’t bury your head in the sand between the high and low tide watermarks - the world may have changed when you come back up for air.

Following on from the aquatic theme:

"Think of considering generics for treatment of HepC as a boat; if you missed it, you may now find you have some swimming to do".

I have this feeling medicos that waited for the gift from Gilead, may have inadvertently deskilled themselves in the meantime.

The definition of Luck:
You find luck when you prepare yourself to take advantage of an opportunity.

"Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you"

(Richie Norton)

For me, taking the HCV generic drugs was the opportunity for a new lease on life. And it worked!

For whomever will read this post: DO NOT WASTE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DOCUMENT YOURSELF ABOUT THE HCV GENERIC DRUGS. You may start with this forum,as it contains a lot of useful information to make a solid opinion about the generic medication for HCV.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
–Erica Jong

"A human being should be able to: change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects" RobertHeinlein

Hazel wrote: "A human being should be able to: change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects" RobertHeinlein

One for all the world's overworked and undervalued General Practitioners?

J.

"A human being should be able to: change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects" RobertHeinlein

Does taking on Big Pharma with generics count under "plan an invasion" ?

Here's one of my not-a-sonnet sonnets

The Path We Choose

Do not shed a tear for me
For I would not for you
Instead just drink a beer for me
And know well that I knew

Dreams of flight do not come free
There comes attached a price
And we do not do it blindly
We know we roll the dice

Before you sail into the sky
A sky slow to forgive
Ask am I, afraid to die?
Or just afraid to live?

So if you try, to reason why
When fate can seem unjust
We take these risks, not to escape life
But to stop life escaping us

When tomorrow starts without me
And I'm not there to see;
If the sun should rise and find your eyes
All filled with tears for me.

I wish so much you wouldn't cry
The way you did today;
While thinking of the many things
We didn't get to say.

I know how much you love me
As much as I love you;
And each time that you think of me,
I know you'll miss me too.

When tomorrow starts without me,
Don't think we're far apart
For every time you think of me,
I'm right here in your heart.

Alena Meadows

"It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other."

—Aldous Huxley