A smattering of images that have made me chuckle recently
In no particular order:
This one's for The Angry Pharmacist:
And for keagirl and Dr Schoor:
Allergic to WiFi (so let's sue the city)
America: where's it's your God-given right to sue anyone or anything for whatever the hell you want, no matter how absurd it is.
God bless the tinfoil hat brigade:
Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones.
"I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said.
Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Psst, Arthur, this is what we call a somatization disorder.
Sante Fe, the rest of the country is laughing at you.
Dude, I need a WTF stamp
I could stamp all the ridiculous prescriptions and fax 'em back to the douchenuggets who wrote them.
Lucky for me, I can have one made… I wonder if my company will pay for such a worthwhile piece of office equipment?
Knowing me, I'd probably go around stamping people, too.
I had no idea MS was in the imaging game
News to me. I'm kind of surprised that they don't have smaller products for private practices.
Come join a team of experts to design, build and ship the first version of a product that will change the world of medical imaging! We are a startup group with the goal of bringing cutting edge technology to the market in order to change the way medical image storage, distribution and interpretation happens. Our product will leverage Amalga* platform, creating a system that will enable physicians with completely new access to diagnostic images and other patient information. We have Medical imaging industry experts at the core of our team and are looking for additional expertise.
Job Description
We are looking for an expert software developer to join a team of highly experienced senior software engineers to build a solution that can seamlessly connect imaging systems from multiple departments and provide interactive visualization of up-to multi-GB datasets to physicians whether they are in the hospital or at home. You will work closely with domain experts in DICOM, imaging IT, Volume Rendering, large dataset handling and advanced image processing and you will be a key contributor to guide technology selection and strategy to solve data processing and distribution problems that have yet to be solved. You will work and collaborate with our distributed team across the globe (core team in Redmond, part of the team in D.C., supporting development team in Beijing, China and research team in Cambridge, UK).
The Health Solutions Group is the same group at MS that's responsible for their HealthVault product as well as the Amalga family.
Gardasil: DTC advertising via your college bookstore
Merck is advertising Gardasil directly to college students that utilize Barnes and Noble's bkstore.com. For those unfamiliar, bkstore.com has a plugin structure where students log on to their college's bookstore, choose their class number (e.g. PHRM 328), and their books are loaded up, and you can either pick them up or have them shipped to you. No going to stand in lines or trying to figure out what books you need. One click shopping at it's most convenient.
So these are college bookstores inadvertently advertising prescription drugs to the entire college population. Well, more accurately, to the population that chooses to have their books shipped to their home, anyway. I don't know if the bundles that can be picked up have similar advertising info.
Merck's going about it in a strange way, though. They're sticking the prescribing information into these boxes. No fancy brochures, just the PI packet, which I find rather bizarre.
I can't say it doesn't make sense, or that it's a terrible idea — I think it's better than advertising Ambien on television — but it does make me wonder what's next… Cephalon advertising Provigil to high school and college kids? Med students? Pharmacy students?
(No discounts for having advertising in your box of books, either. 
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