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Post by userusername on Oct 6, 2016 17:05:52 GMT -5
Hey there everyone,
Just wanted to share a bad experience today. I went hours to a new clinic and they are using VCT. The clinical trial company is ICON in San Antonio, TX. Also, the facility is very dirty, ghetto and the employees are very rude, condescending and act like investigators about every question. I felt like I was a criminal even though it had been 30 days since my previous dosing...
I wouldn't suggest going there even if they didn't have VCT.
They also basically harass you and interrogate you. I was taken back into a private room in their dirty, janky office and the woman even pretended like she was looking at soing on the computer screen and kept asking me questions and trying to get me to fess up. Well, I got played because I wasn't even in the system.
Would everyone like to help list what companies are using VCT or any third party tracking company?
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FloridaGirl
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I am new to Phase 1 clinical trials so I am trying to learn as much as I can .
Posts: 160
Location: Florida
I mainly do: Healthy Studies
# of studies I have done: 3
A little about me: I am just getting started in clinical trials . Became unemployed and was doing small outpatient studies until someone told me about Covance and it has ed up a new world of making money.
So I am trying to do more inpatient studies and am hoping to do even more next year.
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Post by FloridaGirl on Oct 6, 2016 18:28:37 GMT -5
Hey there everyone, Just wanted to share a bad experience today. I went hours to a new clinic and they are using VCT. The clinical trial company is ICON in San Antonio, TX. Also, the facility is very dirty, ghetto and the employees are very rude, condescending and act like investigators about every question. I felt like I was a criminal even though it had been 30 days since my previous dosing... I wouldn't suggest going there even if they didn't have VCT. They also basically harass you and interrogate you. I was taken back into a private room in their dirty, janky office and the woman even pretended like she was looking at soing on the computer screen and kept asking me questions and trying to get me to fess up. Well, I got played because I wasn't even in the system. Would everyone like to help list what companies are using VCT or any third party tracking company? Thanks for sharing about ICON , I won't be going there. It is not worth the flight and hotel for a dirty facility. Screening and being in patient are stressful enough so I am only staying where I feel safe and at least feel welcomed. So I will be careful and always double check my screenings. You also need to check the drug sponsor as well since the same sponsor could be testing several drugs. This just happened to a friend of mine that had just done a study in Florida and then went out of state and the drug was the same sponsor so she had to decline the study. There is already a thread started with clinics that have VCT and the ones that don't. |
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Post by userusername on Oct 6, 2016 20:31:07 GMT -5
You are very welcome. It was big shock to me. I did a study at Covance and Dallas and it was ASTRONOMICALLY better. The staff at ICON are horrendous and they think you're lying about everything. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your tip about checking the drug sponsors. I have created a detailed spreadsheet and I will sure to add this component to it. THANK YOU. Yes, I saw that thread after I posted. Unfortunately, it still doesn't have much information.  |
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Post by Venepuncture on Feb 12, 2017 20:12:38 GMT -5
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Post by puntkicker on Feb 14, 2017 22:53:25 GMT -5
Thanks for that. What saddens me is it took a brand new user to point this out, not to mention the length of time. I hope you ue to contribute, Venepuncture. |
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Post by userusername on Feb 27, 2017 21:48:30 GMT -5
Thanks for that. What saddens me is it took a brand new user to point this out, not to mention the length of time. I hope you ue to contribute, Venepuncture. A lot of these old threads are outdated and have pages and pages to read through along with other useless crap throughout the thread? |
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Post by puntkicker on Mar 2, 2017 0:11:44 GMT -5
Thanks for that. What saddens me is it took a brand new user to point this out, not to mention the length of time. I hope you ue to contribute, Venepuncture. A lot of these old threads are outdated and have pages and pages to read through along with other useless crap throughout the thread? I completely AGREE!!! That is why I took it upon myself to do the work of putting all of the information from *5 PAGES*(plus numnerous other posts on the board) into ONE POST. I just keep editing the OP(original post) on the "New VCT Single Post List" thread. Just scroll down in the "general" area where the old VCT thread is. If you appreciate my work, feel free to give me a "thumbs up" on the list. Apparently, only 3 people like it so far.  Here, I even found the post/thread for you. Whenever someone has soing to add/or change about the original post, feel free to add to the thread. If I died in a study next month, I'd like to think I've done soing for you lot of ingrates. Everyone who contributes gets credit(or blame, if they are fibbing, which no longer seems to happen because of this. It sure as heck did happen a number of times on here in the past, if you take the time to read the entire board....or what is left of it after The Great Flood/Purge(tm), where the entire board was lost. Apparently, there are very few people left posting who predate that, and can give us "oral history" of what the old times on here were like. It's a special treat when it happens, and is extrmely rare...so pay close attention if one of the "old ones" starts to speak of those times. Relax though, this post is as new of information as is publicly available on the board, but I do suggest reading the entire old thread to understand board history, and to appreciate the new thread. Let me know what you think of the "one post list", username. jalr.proboards.com/thread/1034/new-vct-single-post-list |
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