|
Post by idoitforthepong on Mar 9, 2017 19:46:12 GMT -5
Looks like the Spaulding thread mysteriously vanished again. What dirt did I miss this time??
|
|
|
Post by pharmalady on Mar 10, 2017 8:36:08 GMT -5
That they had shut down the bunkbed floors a few months ago for an unknown reason. Bed bugs? Injury? Not sure if they're up and running again.
|
|
|
Post by puntkicker on Mar 10, 2017 21:32:37 GMT -5
With some of the people who post about Spaulding on here(neither of you), I wouldnt be shocked if some of them had personal injury with a normal bed... I'm curious like idoitforthepong...what epic cataclysmic event(s) did I miss in the thread before it was deleted? Or did they just get tired of the ticky tack complaints?
|
|
|
Post by pharmalady on Mar 11, 2017 8:39:37 GMT -5
Bed bugs were a problem there last year. I'm guessing when they took care of it, they didn't get all of them.
|
|
|
Post by idoitforthepong on Mar 11, 2017 9:16:19 GMT -5
Ahh bed bug bites...that's one AE you don't expect to get! I did hear that they were having some issues with the clover study...those good pay per day (usually cardio) studies come at a price i must say.
|
|
franz
Junior Member
Posts: 82
|
Post by franz on Mar 11, 2017 11:18:44 GMT -5
The first time Spaulding "asked" Paul to wipe the subforum, it was apparently because people were discussing their tech-turned-volunteer, & the various "whistle-blowing" (or BS-spreading, depending who you believe) she's done as she's been bouncing back & forth between & Covance.
They then apparently "asked" that the subforum be deleted altogether, early last year I think, when someone simply linked to a Spaulding employee's review of the place on a site where employees review businesses. The review contained some racially inflammatory remarks about black volunteers. That review may still be online, but I forget the name of the website.
The bottom line is, Paul does what the clinics tell him to do.
|
|
|
Post by puntkicker on Mar 12, 2017 4:36:40 GMT -5
The first time Spaulding "asked" Paul to wipe the subforum, it was apparently because people were discussing their tech-turned-volunteer, & the various "whistle-blowing" (or BS-spreading, depending who you believe) she's done as she's been bouncing back & forth between & Covance. They then apparently "asked" that the subforum be deleted altogether, early last year I think, when someone simply linked to a Spaulding employee's review of the place on a site where employees review businesses. The review contained some racially inflammatory remarks about black volunteers. That review may still be online, but I forget the name of the website. The bottom line is, Paul does what the clinics tell him to do. Thanks for the info! Much appreciated. Did the whistleblower post on here, or did members share what they heard from her? Did this website just say things similar to what Vark and others shared about behavior, or was it worse? Can you remember what kind of website it was? I'd really like to find this write up! Im curious what Spaulding could have gotten riled about this time. It was mostly ticky tack stuff. These recent bed bug posts would bother me far more than anything I read earlier. Id be worried about bringing any of them back. And a major LOL to to idoitforthepong for calling the bed bugs an AE... that was EPIC. Things like that make me to not want to leave this board!
|
|
|
Post by idoitforthepong on Apr 5, 2017 16:44:52 GMT -5
Just a heads up for those screening for the Daffadil and spring studies the metabilite test (vivrin pill which makes it a up to 6 hour long *** screening) is there to see if your a certain speed of matabolizer...i think they want slower if i'm not mistaken. How you handle radio labled studies should give you a gauge on this as well as if you ever took the vivrin test there in the past for other studies...if you did let them know so they can look into it and save you the trip up if you don't qualify as they do not look into it when they phone screen you. Good luck, they are some great paying studies for the time. $3900 for 8 nights now!
|
|
mrguy
New Member
Posts: 34
|
Post by mrguy on Apr 7, 2017 1:04:52 GMT -5
I did the phone screen called back and cancelled. They are having a rough time filling that one.
|
|
|
Post by idoitforthepong on Jun 30, 2017 13:53:50 GMT -5
So they postponed meadow at spaulding till later in the summer...at the earliest. Maybe enough people complained (like myself) that they did not say ANYTHING about the check out being 10pm till yaou hd a screening. maybe sponsor wised up to this and will make it a three night with more pay? (i'd rather have 2 nights with good pay then 3 with average...if anyone is listening lol)
Not much out there in the souther wisco/North IL circuit currently right? pretty slow summer
|
|
|
Post by idoitforthepong on Jul 11, 2017 19:57:34 GMT -5
Did anyone do the early cohorts of Bolt at Spaulding? Looks to be paying close to $500 per day for this latest cohort ($6k total) that they have been blasting with us with the robo calls. Seems like there has to be a catch for that.
Also, i hear they are sending consents/study info out by email once you book a screening...i welcome that!
|
|
|
Post by puntkicker on Jul 20, 2017 17:45:20 GMT -5
Did anyone do the early cohorts of Bolt at Spaulding? Looks to be paying close to $500 per day for this latest cohort ($6k total) that they have been blasting with us with the robo calls. Seems like there has to be a catch for that. Also, i hear they are sending consents/study info out by email once you book a screening...i welcome that! A friend of mine asked the same question about Bolt being so high, and I didn't have an answer. It's even more odd that they have to advertise it so much. That's good news about the consents. In my previous experience, the only place to do that was Quintiles(which saved me a trip after reading the sides). EDIT: I'm not sure if that overcomes them being the ONLY clinic on here to make Paul consistently take down their discussion area. Of course it's quite possible that people are spreading disinformation, which would seem to be about the only way Paul could get into trouble, right?
|
|
|
Post by idoitforthepong on Jul 25, 2017 17:21:17 GMT -5
I got some info on Bolt. It's a weight loss drug...hence the 27.5-35 BMI needed. So a "big boy" study! Great money for the time. Only thing is they are only dosing 8 (which is weird they still need screeners after a week of robo calls and emails...that hard to find overweight dudes in Wisconsin!?? The OPVs are spread out several weeks and may be a full days time as they have to shuttle you up to a outside clinnic for other test or soing...no word on what that is.
Also the equal study is basically a reboot of meadow...still checking out very late on either saturday nights (not cool) or thursday nights (a little more cool).
|
|
|
Post by labrat1 on Jun 21, 2021 9:24:34 GMT -5
I do wish we could discuss things honestly. Not with insults but just tell it like it is without the problem of "offending" big pharma and thus people of big pharma or the clinics doing some thing to delete or censor the discussion. There are clinics that need to clean up their acts and it is for their own bottom line too. Better-run clinics will end up making more money.
However regarding bed bugs, there should be a whole thread about that too, but when I was in a clinic appmately early 2020 some volunteer got bitten at night and went to the night nurse who searched all around the bed to find the bug and surprisingly the nurse found the bug and then the following day all rats were put to get all their clothing and put them in plastic bags and the clinic would have the cost of sending all the clothes to the cleaners before returning them back to the rats and also all beds had to be stripped of sheets, pillowcases and blankets so that all those could also be sent to the cleaners. Volunteers were only to wear scrubs with absolutely nothing else underneath, no underwear, socks or t-shirts. The volunteers would have to remove the scrubs later and maybe the scrubs would be destroyed or discarded. Then volunteers had to all wait in a specific room while a bed bug extermination company went through the entire dorm rooms spraying and "heating" the furniture and beds and mattresses.
One dumb volunteer kept his briefs on under his scrub pants and when the staff found out one of the workers scolded him telling him that he should have had them sent to the cleaners along with the rest of his clothes and since he did not, it is possible that the briefs could have bed bugs on them and they have to be put in a plastic bag now, but the staff would not know what to do with them because they cannot just discard the volunteer's briefs which were his belongings but neither can they let the volunteer keep the briefs which had not gone to the washers and could be contaminated .
Later on , the staff had the volunteers put on new scrubs and gave them back their clothing all cleaned, ironed and nicely folded in plastic bags. It must have been a cost, an unforeseen one, to have to pay to have all the volunteers' clothing professionally washed. (The clinic otherwise did not have laundry facilities). Eventually the staff announced to the volunteers that it seems that the one bed bug that was found and sent to a lab was identified as a bed bug but it seems to have been an errant one and no other bugs were found in the clinic and if there were any invisible bed bug eggs, the exterminators sprayed and "heat treated" the dorms and furniture and everywhere else in the facility. Sure it could have been "over-precaution" but when it comes to bed bugs this is what has to be done . Bed bugs are extremely hard to get rid of and some people suffer very ill effects from being bitten.
The problem is that it is not easy to determine who might have brought in a bed bug. It may be easy to say that someone who does not bathe and smells bad but bed bugs can be picked up from a hotel, from a seat on a bus or train etc.
The clinic did a good job in taking the matter seriously and taking the utmost care possible.
Does anyone know if there are actual protocols in clinics when it comes to bed bugs that are found? Do some clinics ignore bed bed bug complaints from volunteers, or maybe from staff? If certain clinic staff do ignore complaints about bed bugs is that a violation of health safety in the clinic?
I guess bed bug regulations would be a matter of the department of buildings in the particular state. However it seems that hospitals or nursing homes or hotels would have bed bug prevention or treatment protocols because those are places where people are housed for whatever amount of time. It seems there may be Department-Of-Health regulations involved with that. If a landlord or building owner is found to be ignoring bed bug complaints or maybe not doing anything about it, it seems legal action can be taken. But research clinics or CROs are an island to themselves. So to speak. They are not hospitals or hotels even though people are housed in them for certain amounts of time. There are laws that would apply to other facilities ( hospitals and nursing homes and hotels and boarding homes etc) but for research clinics there are many loopholes. As a lot of us lab rats know, research volunteers have very iffy, spotty, unspecified rights.
If there were a fire in a research clinic there are general rules about evacuating the people inside. But are there rules that apply to research facilities regarding bed bug infestation or possible bed bug infestation? Do clinics have to do what this clinic that I described did, have all volunteers strip their beds and put their clothes in bags and have them all sent to the cleaners. Do research facilities have a "budget" for such emergencies so as to pay for such a thing should bed bug infestation occur?
If anyone has insight on this it would be great if that person could comment.
I think that a "Clinic bed-bug" discussion of itself would be interesting and informative and I might start a thread about it.
A lot of bed bug sufferers might benefit.
|
|
|
Post by labrat1 on Jun 21, 2021 9:45:02 GMT -5
The first time Spaulding "asked" Paul to wipe the subforum, it was apparently because people were discussing their tech-turned-volunteer, & the various "whistle-blowing" (or BS-spreading, depending who you believe) she's done as she's been bouncing back & forth between & Covance. They then apparently "asked" that the subforum be deleted altogether, early last year I think, when someone simply linked to a Spaulding employee's review of the place on a site where employees review businesses. The review contained some racially inflammatory remarks about black volunteers. That review may still be online, but I forget the name of the website. The bottom line is, Paul does what the clinics tell him to do. There are quite a few business-review sites in which employees or former employees post their experiences with certain companies. I think Bloomberg is a major one. But there are others. It would be interesting to find that review if it is still there. www.businessnewsdaily.com/7937-business-review-websites.html
|
|