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Post by drakingson on Jul 17, 2016 4:06:43 GMT -5
PPD screws people all the time. I've done over 30 studies and never had to do a retest for anything. The day of dosing PPD claimed that I needed to do my ECG over. Just as I was about to get my dose they said I failed my ECG! WTF? I've never failed an ECG. They said some bull about my heart beating too slow. What does an ECG have anything to do with my heart beating too slow. I was pissed. I missed out on an 8k study. If the had told me to get my heart rate up I could have gotten angry and done that. I'm done with PPD. I missed dosing three times and about 3k flying in from Ohio. I am filing a class action law suit to get my travel money and missed study money back. I need others like yourself to complain with me. The more people that we can get the better a case we have contact me.
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Post by drakingson on Jul 17, 2016 2:36:20 GMT -5
I think holding me against my will for three hours against my will is a violation of my civil and human rights not to mention unethical.
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Post by drakingson on Jul 17, 2016 2:30:57 GMT -5
PPD will always call with your lab results. Either way good or bad they will call you back within a couple days. It usually takes at least two days. I have screened five times and never had any issues with my screening results. I went down there with two friends. Both failed their labs. One failed for iron too low and the other had inconclusive tb results. PPD won't let him screen again until he gets an ok from a doctor to come back. PPD is just bastards.
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Post by drakingson on Jul 17, 2016 2:21:54 GMT -5
I just got excluded from my 8k study during the day of dosing. I passed everything with flying colors. I was at the table to get my dosing. Then all of a sudden this witch pulls me aside and says that I have to do a retest on my ECG. I do a retest and then get pulled aside to say I've "been excluded from the study". She said my heart was "beating too slowly". I have never heard of an ECG to record heart beats. We wore an heart monitor for 5 mins earlier that morning. I was pissed and to top it off they h=made me wait over three hours to leave. I was held against my will for over three hours and pissed the eff off. I wanted to shoot somebody. This is the fifth time I tried to get into PPD and did not get in. I've checked in three times and got excluded the morning of dosing. I've spent over $3,000 traveling to and from Texas from Virginia and also on hotels/hostels. I've never had to repeat my ECG and I've done over 30 studies over the course of five years. I've tried to contact the manager there but they have refused to return my phone calls. I know of about ten people who had been excluded at PPD and have always gotten in everywhere else. My friend Mary was excluded because they said she failed their vein assessment but she has always passed vein assessments everywhere else. If you have had the same experience at PPD please contact me. I would like to file a class action law suit against them. I have a background in law and have sued large corporations successfully.
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Post by drakingson on Jun 27, 2016 22:27:46 GMT -5
use RSVP a similar vertification by not the same as Clini Labs VCT and others I just left both places This is NOT true. When I called the phone number that gave me they knew that I had been at Spaulding ad Spaulding does not use RSVP or whtever it is called. They only use VCT.
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Post by drakingson on Jun 27, 2016 22:18:08 GMT -5
Hi:
I just had my screening today for the $7,800 at PPD and have to wait around Austin for the physical. Does anyone know of a person who has room for rent? There used to be an employee at PPD who would rent otu a room for $10-15.
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Post by drakingson on Jun 27, 2016 22:11:25 GMT -5
Hi:
I had good bp the first year I did studies but as I desired to make more and more money and got more stressed out my bp went up. I also found that the stress of travel caused my bp to elevate. Now I always make sure I arrive a day or two before screening. it can be a pain in the *** but it works. I sometimes take benadryl the night before if I have anxiety. Always get plenty of sleep and try to use very little energy- be a couch potato.
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Post by drakingson on Jun 16, 2016 9:23:29 GMT -5
is now on VCT! I was told that they had some type of verification but that it was not similar to the VCT that everyone else uses. Then I screened I fingerprinted and had to sign some type of form. I asked the screening person for the phone number of their VCT company. I called a few hours after screening and discovered that they are the SAME company that Spaulding, Celerion, PRA, SNBL, Worldwide, Icon, and others use! I'm so glad that it has been a few months since I did any studies at any of those places. But it was a close call and a little too close. I was only screening at because they were paying $270 for screening. I did not plan on actually checking in.
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Post by drakingson on Jan 20, 2016 22:19:52 GMT -5
A friend recommended that I try taking some blood pressure meds like beta blockers or ACE inhibitors like lisinopril. I'm just afraid that they might show up on my urine or blood tests as soing like an anti-depressant or since they might have these substances in them. Neither drug belongs to either of those drug classes but you never know. Another friend of mine says that she uses beta blockers when she screens. Has anyone ever use beta blockers or ACE inhibitors during screening?
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Post by drakingson on Nov 21, 2015 16:40:12 GMT -5
Hi:
I've been searching on google but I can't find any buses to or from NOCCR. Does anyone know of any? Do people just take a cab because there are no buses??? I have a screening this Monday at 11am.
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Post by drakingson on Nov 6, 2015 11:05:20 GMT -5
Why are you shocked? Is this Bethany from MO who is dating a guy named Jason?
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Post by drakingson on Nov 5, 2015 0:50:16 GMT -5
I went there on Monday for a screening and they said my heart rate was too high. The guy who did my blood pressure acted like a jerk. He didn't even tell me it was high until after it was all over so I couldn't even do anything to improve it. This place is very unprofessional. The staff acts ghetto and doesn't do their job well. We were told one thing about the study on the screening line and then we are told soing completely different when we get there. The dates and number of outpatient visits were wrong. The payment amount was wrong. Then when I tried to ask questions I get a ghetto answer. "What do you expect em to do about it Next!!!" The Asian staff member who used to work in the inpatient unit is now at the screening department. She was always so nervous when she took your blood over there. I guess they figured she was a liability so they put her in a place where she wouldn't create a law suit. I simply asked for my results and she yelled at me. I had to make several phone calls before I could. This place just uses people and spits them out. The don't have any big studies anymore.
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Post by drakingson on Nov 5, 2015 0:35:12 GMT -5
I went there fora screening because I needed the money not because any of their studies were paying a lot. I blood pressure was ONE POINT OVER and now I am banned/blackballed until I can have a doctor approve me to come back. Since I've gone to my own doctor for this before (once again one point over) he thinks these people are cray cray and won't even see me. My insurance company wont allow me to see another doctor so I have to go pay the money out of my own pocket. The staff kept yelling me to relax. They had an attitude and after all of this stress my blood pressure went over again. I tried to get it back down but who can with this abuse. I left pissed off and tried to explain my situation with the manager there and she just blew it off.
Covance has gone down a spiral the past year. There is talk of them going bankrupt or closing some of its facilities possibly Madison. I called the IRB but after their investigation they did nothing. Since I wont come back to a place that abuses me I am going to just make their life a hell and sent out complaint letters to every government organization in Madison, WI, and the federal government. This si WAR!
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Post by drakingson on Nov 5, 2015 0:26:23 GMT -5
I just screened there on Friday and they THEY DID NOT MENTION VCT!!!
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Post by drakingson on Oct 6, 2015 19:51:15 GMT -5
I heard that Covance is going to using VCT soon. A friend of a friend said the asked him to sign a VCT form while screening at Dallas Covance.
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