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Post by sam9009 on Dec 1, 2014 10:04:58 GMT -5
Anyone know when that 10g study going to start screening again?
Thanks.
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healthyguy
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Post by healthyguy on Dec 6, 2014 13:55:09 GMT -5
How long was this study for and how many returns
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2014 11:44:48 GMT -5
IIRC, it was for over a month of uous in-house. Don't recall the number of, if any, returns.
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Post by labrat1981 on Dec 11, 2014 10:57:25 GMT -5
Don't waste your time here. This place is becoming a joke. I'm currently in an earlier cohort and the **** I've seen wouldn't fly at any other CRO. There's little to no rules anymore, so the labrats can do whatever the **** they want.The food quality has diminished alot. The staff levels have decreased: ex. - 4 staff members are doing the work of 10 and so forth. Labrats turn their tv volume up, blocking out others from hearing their tv and not letting people sleep. There's so much more to go into to, but I'll stop.
Basically, if you don't mind staying in a ghetto, rat infested motel then you'll have no problem here.
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Post by antecubital on Dec 11, 2014 17:22:57 GMT -5
Labrats turn their tv volume up, blocking out others from hearing their tv and not letting people sleep. It's always been like that. Four TVs in one room, on four different stations at once = volume war. I think most people don't know or don't care about the nasty effects that noise pollution has on mental health and stress levels.
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Post by ac on Dec 11, 2014 18:07:02 GMT -5
Labrats turn their tv volume up, blocking out others from hearing their tv and not letting people sleep. It's always been like that. Four TVs in one room, on four different stations at once = volume war. I think most people don't know or don't care about the nasty effects that noise pollution has on mental health and stress levels. Excessive noise is the most stressful part of staying in a clinic for me. Worse than any needle pokes or other procedures. I've never been to Paraxel so I don't know the setup but can people plug earbuds into the tvs with an extender? It always amazes me how many people don't use earbuds with their phones or laptops but maybe it's not an option with the tvs.
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Post by antecubital on Dec 11, 2014 18:24:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll second that. Noise (TVs, loud conversations, video games) kills it for me, too.
Earbuds/headphones aren't really an option. The TVs there hang on a wall across the room from the beds. At least, in the large dorm-style rooms they do. Smaller rooms have four beds/one TV. But still, if you just want to lay in bed and chill/sleep/read and somebody else wants to watch TV, then too bad, you get to suffer.
Goes with the territory, I guess. I always remind myself what I'm there for and how much I'm getting paid for it.
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Post by ac on Dec 11, 2014 20:29:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll second that. Noise (TVs, loud conversations, video games) kills it for me, too. Earbuds/headphones aren't really an option. The TVs there hang on a wall across the room from the beds. At least, in the large dorm-style rooms they do. Smaller rooms have four beds/one TV. But still, if you just want to lay in bed and chill/sleep/read and somebody else wants to watch TV, then too bad, you get to suffer. Goes with the territory, I guess. I always remind myself what I'm there for and how much I'm getting paid for it. The bedroom is supposed to be a quiet area. If it's during the day I won't say anything unless it's really extreme but if it's at night then it will be quiet. I have no more tolerance for inconsiderate people. If it's quiet hours/lights out time, I will ask them nicely one time to stop with the noise and then i'll go to the staff. I had to do that just last week when my roommate woke me up talking on the phone at 1:15am. I don't understand how that could possibly be considered acceptable. You have to stand up to those people or they'll just keep doing it. I've had to confront a fellow labrat about their noise at least once in over half the studies i've done and have gone to staff twice so far this year.
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Post by antecubital on Dec 12, 2014 10:45:50 GMT -5
It's basically a matter of common courtesy among grown men.
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Post by labrat1981 on Dec 12, 2014 12:17:32 GMT -5
I agree with everything mentioned. The tv's on the wall and the ones on carts don't have headphone outlets. The only option to use headphones with your laptop to watch movies/tv. There's also an underground black market food swapping. Besides that, the hallways are cluttered with ghetto either mackin' on the ladies or paying boardgames. The labrat policies of Parexel have dramatically decreased and not enforced. If you aren't doing a $7k+ study, it's not worth the time coming here.
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Post by antecubital on Dec 12, 2014 14:21:46 GMT -5
There's also an underground black market food swapping. I don't care what rules other subjects break, as long as they don't infringe on me.
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Post by vark on Dec 17, 2014 11:53:31 GMT -5
It's basically a matter of common courtesy among grown men. The cultural norms about noise, and common courtesy, are different in the ghetto. I screened at parexel several times before I gave up and crossed parexel off my list, but I was there long enough to see how ghetto it is. You need to watch The Wire, at least season 1, before going to Parexel. The Little Rock clinic was like that before it went out of business. But I'm here to talk about noise. One of the best investments a lab rat an make is a set of noise-cancelling headphones. Having a quiet room that is actually quiet is the most important thing a clinic must have. Well, that and a bathtub, but none of these places have bathtubs. At Covance Evansville, the written rules specify that the bedroom is the designated quiet area, and if your roommates are running the TV 23 hours a day you can tell them to turn it off. I did, they wouldn't, so we went to staff, and staff said I was a troublemaker for asking that the rules be followed, so I am now banned from Covance world-wide for the past 5 years. When a place doesn't follow its own written rules, that means it is testing on humans without informed consent, which is the number one legal and ethical rule about how clinics are supposed to be run.
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Post by antecubital on Dec 17, 2014 17:20:40 GMT -5
I was initiated into The Wire while doing a study at Parexel, and I've since watched every single episode, in . One of the best TV shows ever.
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