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Post by vark on Jun 19, 2013 19:59:21 GMT -5
they dont have the dates yet, but expect to screen around july 18-20 for an august study. you can call and get on the list yet. this one is $4000 because it has a spinal tap. if you don't want to do the spinal tap, ask to be on the list for a september study.
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Post by vark on Jun 10, 2013 15:43:34 GMT -5
i talked to a woman who is here and she doesn't remember being asked for any paperwork.
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Post by vark on Jun 8, 2013 18:56:01 GMT -5
i haven't been to ppd. i don't smoke, but twice i've flunked ine screenings. one place, i got banned for a year, the other place, i just didnt get in that study. some places use a more sensitive test than the drugstore ones.
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Post by vark on Jun 7, 2013 16:26:46 GMT -5
hi maggie. i post at boingboing as arbitraryaardvark. i enjoy your work. happy to be quoted. overall i strongly disagree with the anti-study perspective of the people you have talked with. life entails risk, many jobs are more risky than what we do, and in my neighborhood not having any income is itself very risky. doing studies i've been able to a house and pay the bills; this is way better than being out on the street. it also beats the kind of jobs i had when i was younger and more desperate - stuff like working at mcdonalds. if anything i'd like to see what we do acknowledged as an actual job. we are called "volunteers", and there's a lot of hippocracy (sp) in the business. like, there can be pressure from irb's to keep the pay so low that it's a struggle to make a living wage. i don't know any other job that has similar constraints.
while i am overall positive about the industry, i have had problems with specific companies, lying or withholding information, and then as travelingrat said the irb is no help and there doesn't seem to any other recourse.
here's a recent example. 10 days ago i met a guy, andrew x, who had a story about how he had been banned from a certain clinic, the one that around here we call "the clinic that cannot be named." I don't have any way to verify whether what he said is true, i'm just repeating what he told me, as best i remember. because he ended up not getting into the study i'm doing, he went home before i could get his contact info.
he was screening for a study. edit: maybe he was checking in. he mentioned to one of the other people screening, a link to a post here at jalr, linking to medical articles about the drug. the articles said that the drug should not be given introvenously (sp), as there was a high risk of death. the study called for the drug to be given introvenously. a bunch of people decided they didn't want to be in the study, and they ended up not being able to fill the study and had to cancel it. they banned him from further studies there. if this story is true, it may be related to a cease and desist letter this site got, so that studies from that site are no longer listed here.
= edit: i'm not saying we should be classed as employees for tax or employment law purposes. independent contractor is closest to what we are, which is a sort of dependent contractor - we don't bring our own tools or make any of our own decisions about how the job gets done.
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Post by vark on Jun 4, 2013 12:05:44 GMT -5
am here now. no problems at all. showers aren't hot enough. you have to eat all the food, but the new place is big enough i can just walk it off. 13 laps around the hall = a mile. the food is better than at the old place. there's a pool room, game room, tv room, visitor's lounge, where right now we are having a chess tournament, then the cafeteria, and the library/computer room/quiet room. bring a book to donate to the library. saw a deer from the window tonight.
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Post by vark on May 30, 2013 16:48:49 GMT -5
ask paraxel and for your labs, and bring those and the independent blood test with next time you screen at [wherever] and discuss it with the dr. maybe they have false positives in their testing. maybe you have an intermittent problem.
back when i was wasting my time and money trying to do studies at lilly, one time they said my thyroid was off and i'd have to get a lab test, that was $150, then when i went back in they said they didnt really need the lab test after all.
i've never smoked, but twice i've had false positives for ine at screenings. i just consider that kind of thing as part of the game.
i am not a doctor and this is not medical advice.
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Post by vark on May 30, 2013 16:38:26 GMT -5
study is back on but i can't go. $3100, takes a month but half of that is outpatients. if anybody wants to do this, please list me or paul as your referrer.
btw other places that pay at least soing for screening include jasper medpace community and that one in west bend.
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Post by vark on May 29, 2013 19:03:11 GMT -5
megabus is having a sale us.megabus.com/sale.aspxwith $5 and $10 tickets between certain cities, some of those -omaha, morgantown, knoxville, e.g. have clinics. some strings attached, like get your ticket a week ahead while they last.
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Post by vark on May 22, 2013 0:33:21 GMT -5
different places have different procedures. most places either call you, or tell you when to call. they also say "if you havent heard from us by __, give us a call." calling is better than not calling. always call before driving to a screening far away. i have made wasted trips to nj and n dakota when studies were cancelled and they didn't bother to tell me. some places give you an exact time to call in and it's a fight to see whose call gets answered first and gets in.
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Post by vark on May 22, 2013 0:26:55 GMT -5
High point is a lot nicer than AAI was. give it a try. i didn't make it past screening, but my impression was very positive. knoxville just gives me the runaround. they don't have much if you are over 45. there's money at paraxel, if not for me. there are some places in florida, i haven't been and their web sites don't tell you much so call.
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Post by vark on May 13, 2013 14:23:23 GMT -5
>stop complaining and that there was nothing we could do about it.
At a minimum you can forward your message to the sponsor and the IRB. Their info is listed on your consent form. Probably nothing will come of it. Also you can contact the higher-ups at wwct.
later edit: oh, what was i thinking. wwct is kendle, new name, probably same people. they pack you like rats - hard chairs during the day, bunk beds at night. they don't tell you what's going on. when i reported an AE they sent me home with half pay. i think i've been there 3 times; i'm used to their games. don't go there with high expectations. (2015 edit, got mixed up by the initials, not kendle.)
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Post by vark on May 13, 2013 14:14:00 GMT -5
greyhound tickets are usually good for a year. they might let you on the bus with an old ticket, or they might make you go get it reprinted, and they might charge $15 for that.
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Post by vark on May 11, 2013 15:59:46 GMT -5
I recently screened for the first time at vince. Overall good impression, but I had a couple of problems. They called me at 9 pm the night before screening to say the screening had been postponed a day. So an extra night in a hotel and a day wandering around kansas city took up the screening payment (which was bigger than expected. annoyingly, it's only a gift card, not a check.) Then when they were supposed to call me with the results, they didn't. Eventually, a day before check-in, I got through to somebody who said the study had been postponed. I still don't know if it is cancelled, or will be rescheduled, or if i'll have to rescreen, or what.
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Post by vark on May 3, 2013 19:32:28 GMT -5
i dumpster dive, garden, look for the next house i'll , keep up my blogs, putter around the house, well mostly i waste all day on reddit. lately i've been doing research, thinking about resuming an old business i had.
on my last study i roomed with a guy who had all kinds of business ventures going. he does flea markets, makes soing he sells there, gathers thousands of golf balls from woods and lakes around golf courses, and i forget what else.
a related question: does anybody know a good way to make money while in a study? some kind of online thing for example? www/reddit.com/r/beermoney talks about this stuff, but i havent seen anything there for me.
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Post by vark on May 3, 2013 19:24:31 GMT -5
it only took me one strike. they didn't like my ekg. new haven has a great sushi place, miya's.
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