[donocco]

I worked as a pharmacist at Sloan Kettering in 1978 and left in 1979. I had one experience Ill never forget. I was the nighttime outpatient pharmacist. One of the main childhood leukemia oncologists came down to the pharmacy with her nephews. It was in October 1978 and I was 30. Her nephews had some kind of infection and I made up Amoxicillin suspensions for them. I tried to make small talk with Dr. T, something Im not good at. My statement " It will be wonderful when they find a preventative for childhood leukemia"
(I was thinking about viruses and prevention) was met with the retort "Then well both be out of a job." I cheerfully retorted only she would be out of a job not me, and listed all the different chemos for all of the different cancers I made up that day. Kind of makes you think a bit. How does Pfizer feel about cancer?How about Genentech? How about Komen? How about the American Cancer Society. How about ASCO?

Paul