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Most men who will basically experience one or all of these in varying degrees:

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* Quit smoking. Smoking constricts blood vessels and leads to a build of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the penis. This results in diminished erectile function, shrinkage of the penis, and impotence later in life.

* Avoid liquor and dangerous drugs. Alcohol and narcotics puts you in great risk of impotence or erectile dysfunction.

* Exercise. Exercising is good for your overall health. Try brisk walking, running, cycling, or swimming for at least 30 minutes a day, three times a week.

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* Stimulate your penis. Maintain healthy penis and prostate circulation by having regular erections and ejaculations. Natural penis exercises not only ensure good circulation but can also aid in penis enlargement, both in length and girth. This works best when coupled with the use of an enlargement device, penis enlargement pills, and semen volumizers.

Have a vigorous and healthy sex life for life. Start by making the necessary changes now.

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Massachusetts Medical Pharmaceutical "Gift Ban" ---------------- An argument for the the return of the medical informational dinner------------------



Massachusetts is the only state that prohibits pharmaceutical-company-sponsored neutral-site educational lectures (with dinner) for physicians.

Quick, bullet point summary of the article below
  • Doctors are clearheaded enough to eat a meal and then still think through to the best medication choice.
  • Do politicians hold themselves to this same standard? Are politicians willing to give up their lobbyist-paid occasions?
  • These medications have passed FDA-scrutiny, a very high bar.
  • Lectures are sponsored by competitors within a given pharmaceutical class, so doctors are likely to hear many different perspectives.
  • Lectures won't be the sole place that doctors get information, with sophisticated knowledge-database availabilities currently.
  • In fact the lectures barely even mention the product and are well-balanced, given by the "thought leaders" who don't want to seem beholden to a pharmaceutical company.
  • It is a competitive world and Massachusetts needs to keep attracting the best doctors. Many doctors don't appreciate losing the collegial atmosphere of sponsored functions.
  • Your work and effort is needed to repeal this "gift ban". Please e-mail as below.


It is insulting to think that doctors who are ostensibly smart enough to save one's life are (at the same time) in fact so stupid, or (perhaps worse) merely gullible enough, to be swept away (or even swayed) by what is in actuality only a very weak potion of sales-presentation intermixed with and embedded within generally informative and pharmaceutical-balanced subject-focused medical lectures. Such lectures occur usually at a private function room at a restaurant or, in conjunction with a served dinner. It is the dinner-aspect that rankles the politicians, who are under the presumption that a served meal (or the associated thankfulness for same) will override doctors' better sensibilities at the time of later writing prescriptions.

These prescriptions will be written after evaluating patients, in consideration of best medical practice, desirous of success, yet under the eternal threat of malpractice or failure. Somehow though at the time of prescription-writing a long-ago-digested meal's meaning and memory will predominate over the preponderance of acute medical and clinical data, diagnosis, and thought.

Are our medical professionals so much more corruptible than our politicians? How is it that politicians are somehow able to sit through thousands of dollars worth of lobbyist-, or other political-contribution dinners without having their opinions or actions influenced (insert laugh track here) -- yet physicians are unable to maintain their balance and bearing, after the occasional dinner? At these dinners there is generally a group of a dozen or more physicians, whereas at lobbyists' convocations for politicians, the politician may be in fact the only person being fêted. In which situation is there a higher likelihood of monetary-influenced opinion-changing?

Where is the ban on politicians' attending lobbyist-sponsored dinners? Will politicians be clamoring for this anytime soon?

The pharmaceuticals associated with these dinners have already passed scrutiny by the FDA in order to reach market. This is a very high bar, a high standard to meet, and generally tens of millions of dollars have been invested in the pharmaceutical substance to bring it to market. It is sensible and necessary for future innovation and for current incorporation of information to have the prescribing population become aware of newer medications (and of utilization changes of older medications).

Politicians also ignore the fact that pharmaceutical companies don't exist in a vacuum (or as a monopoly... perhaps this is self-referential, the way they think of government, and the way government acts). Pharmaceutical companies, on the other hand, compete with each other. For every dinner that I went to in years past for promotion of (for instance) cialis, I would also invariably attend dinners for competitors cheap cialis and Levitra. I would leave these lectures better informed about the ED-problem, the nature of PDE5 inhibitors, the possibility of side effects, but not "in the bag" for one brand or the other.

I have no doubt that physicians are adept enough, smart enough, and well enough balanced to make appropriate medical decisions based on the information out there (these days even more accessible , with so many instantly available medical-knowledge tools). These "live" (pharmaceutical-sponsored) educational sessions serve a useful adjunct function for dissemination of information, bringing physicians together and allowing physicians directly to question skilled and knowledgeable lecturers -- in my experience, with questions more about disease-states than about specific medications.

Physicians are quite busy and are also hard workers and high earners. Their working time is valuable and their free time is in a sense equally or more valuable. In order to bring doctors actionable and timely information, pharmaceutical companies knowingly and sensibly offer this non-monetary stipend of a sociable and social outing, a dinner. This is a nontransferable momentary benefit that is literally consumed at the spot.

I remember leaving these dinner lectures "full", but generally more nearly full of newly acquired subject-matter knowledge than abdominally full. The lectures themselves would barely mention a given sponsoring product, but even if they did, I would trust, and do trust , doctors during business hours to make their best decisions in accordance with the realities of a situation.

Even for the speaker, giving these lectures does not represent a "conflict of interest." The pharmaceutical company is simply happy to have the FDA-approved data presented to the audience. After that, the more thoughtful and neutral the speaker is with regard to the medication, the more credibility is maintained. Does the legislature want to keep suppressing the opportunity to hear truly balanced presentations?

Bringing back these sociable collegial events will help Massachusetts compete for "the best and brightest" physicians. Certainly we create a fair number here in our training institutions, but retention may be another matter.

The Massachusetts legislature holds a possibility in current session of repealing this "gift"-ban. Please do all you can in contacting your legislators to help further this process towards repeal.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely,

___________________
Randall S. Bock, M. D.


for those interested in taking action, here is a quick addendum to help you focus your efforts:
The conference committee members who will be determining the fate of the “gift ban” repeal have been announced. please contact any/all of the below. Let them know your opinion on this matter.

· Sen. Karen Spilka – Metro West
· Sen. Ben Downing – Western MA
· Sen. Bruce Tarr – North Shore
· Rep. Brian Dempsey – Haverhill – Supported repealing the ban
· Rep. Garrett Bradley – Plymouth – Supported repealing the ban
· Rep. Viriato Manuel deMacedo – Plymouth – Not present