u/dinodude47

I was thinking this when I was talking to a Bimzelx rep today. Every drug rep will testify that their drug is the best, the fastest, the safest, will tell you the winning lottery numbers, and cure world hunger.

She asked me today, “why don’t you use my drug?” And the answer in my head was simply “I already have my preferred biologic, and this drug doesn’t motivate me to learn a new drug thoroughly”. Which is a fine answer, but I always worry that I will turn into that provider that’s still using drugs invented decades ago if I continue that mentality.

All drug rep studies are going to be skewed and biased, so I take their miraculous studies with a grain of salt, so I’m never sure if I’m missing “the next big thing” or not. Normally I wait for annual Derm conferences to see what everyone else is using.

I guess the short question after all that is, how do you all balance using your favorite medications, and introducing innovations as they come out?

Wow, what a disappointment that was. Maybe my expectations were set too high, but only seeing two active artists creating, one band in front of the bookstore, and one band locked behind a cover charge at little fleet hardly felt like a community event. All the advertising made it out to be this big expo of local art, but in reality it had so few artists scattered around the front st area, selling maybe one or two products each? Some of the stores listed didn’t even have their artists present, and it seemed like a lot of the vendors were underwhelmed with the event too.

To be clear, the artists were stellar and the music was fantastic, but it felt more like scattered performances than an organized event.

Feels like a silly thing to complain about, but I’m wondering if people had similar experiences, or if we went at a bad time.

A long time ago, when I first started using the app, the music would pause automatically when the story would play but that changed for me after an update a few years ago. I can’t seem to find how to fix it in the settings, does anyone have any advice on how to get that fixed?

Edit: got my answer, thanks everyone!

Hi all, I recently moved to MI from CA, and feel like I’m struggling getting my treatment plans approved for anything I used to prescribe without a second thought.

I’m still new to the area, so I know I will get better as I go, but I was hoping someone could provide some tips and tricks on how to best manage the balance between what drugs I want to write and what will be realistically covered by insurance.

It sounds like priority health is a useless insurance to bargain with, and BCBS is also hard to convince. I’m newly credentialed with certain Medicaids so I’m hoping they will be more lenient, but at this point I’m afraid to write things like skyrizi, Zoryve, etc because I’m just waiting for the denial letter.

My employer is leaning heavily into AI for prior auths, so I can’t depend on our MA staff to help there. Help?