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["Jon Campbell" <jon@cqs.com>]

Does everyone else get this trash?
Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: profitvitamins@14430.com <profitvitamins@14430.com>
To: friend@barneysfriend.com <friend@barneysfriend.com>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 6:24 PM
Subject: How to PROFIT from Managed Health Care


>FROM "THE PHYSICIANS ADVISORY JOURNAL"!
>
>Managed health care is closing in on many practices.  Revenues are
>shrinking while the never ending spiral of costs continues to rocket
skyward!
>
>ARE YOU WORKING LONGER HOURS?
>OFFERING YOUR SERVICES AT CUT-RATE PRICES?
>
>Where is that going to leave your practice in the weeks, months,
>and years to come?
>
>What strategies are you using to survive?
>
>What is the impact on your patients, your staff, YOU and your family?
>
>REVERSE THE TREND.
>
>The PHYSICIANS ADVISORY JOURNAL advocates medical care providers
>augment their income by offering practice related products and services.
>
>This is a difficult change for many physicians, yet more than a few are
>realizing that OFFERING PRACTICE RELATED PRODUCTS AND
>SERVICES is a unique opportunity to broaden the economic base of
>even a small practice.
>
>Please allow KareMor, the distribution arm of Mayor Pharmaceuticals,
>to introduce the superior "Vitamist" products and YOUR significant
>income opportunity!
>
>THINK:  Appropriate to your specialty, you clinically specify nutritional
>supplements to your patients. (i.e)
>
> GYN/postmenopause = Calcium, Vitamin E,
>
> OB = prenatal vitamin/folic acid, acetaminophen, B6
>
> INT. MED. = B12, Co enzyme Q10, folacin, antioxidants, etc.
>
>Think for a moment about how our traditional system works.  You recommend
>a supplement.  Then your patient leaves your office to buy the supplement
>elsewhere.
>
>All the while you know the pharmaceutical industry is one of the world's
>most profitable.
>
>WHY NOT HAVE THE PATIENT PURCHASE DIRECTLY FROM YOU?
>
>"Heresy!" some proclaim.  But why SHOULDN'T you provide the supplements
>you are legally and ethically allowed to provide for your patients?
>
>You can offer them a premium pharmaceutical-grade product, not available
>in stores, and the convenience of one-stop care while creating a new
>income "stream of revenue". It is fact, the vitamin industry is a BILLION
>DOLLAR a year industry and is growing by leaps and bounds!
>
>(I was at my neighborhood supermarket pharmacy yesterday--and couldn't
>help but notice that they had placed a massive 12-foot vitamin rack
stretching
>out below the counter.  Why would store managers allow vitamins to sit in
>the most valuable, high-profile display space?  Simple.  Vitamins are a
major
>profit center!)
>
>OUR PRODUCT: Concentrated nutriment SPRAY, all natural-organic, preserved
>from light and O2 by a protective 13.3 ml. nonaerosol canister, granting a
>five year shelf life. Technologically advanced metered spray nozzle that
>delivers 50 micron droplets to the system via the capillary network of
>the BUCCAL MUCOSA for nutrient absorption at 90% in 30 seconds -
>surpassed only by IV delivery! The liver, GI tract, and kidneys are not
taxed.
>
>LOOK FOR US IN PDR!
>
>Our EXCLUSIVE delivery system is OPTIMUM and UNCHALLENGED!
>
>It is patented in the US and Internationally and is listed as
>"VITAMIST" in your PDR.
>
>
>NOW is the time for a positive pivotal change . . . join with us to
>recapture your financial stability and your patients' well being!
>
>Call, fax or email for a complete "Physicians Package".
>
>
>Thanking you for your consideration,
>
>Leslie  J. Puchala
>
>email: Vits98@hotmail.com
>V/M: (954) 418-2713
>Fax: (954) 792-0187
>