Happy Monday (an oxymoron if there ever was one…), Everyone!<\/p>\n
Last week, I wrote a blog\u00a0entitled “The Mouths that Roared,” regarding the debut of ASI Radio. The weekly half-hour live\u00a0call-in talk radio\u00a0show kicks off tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern time) and\u00a0will feature ASI’s five senior editors — Melinda Ligos, editor-in-chief; Kathy Huston, editor of Advantages<\/em>; Andy Cohen, editor of Counselor<\/em>; Joe Haley, managing editor and star of\u00a0The\u00a0Joe Show<\/em>; and\u00a0myself. To access the show, just go to the link www.asicentral.com\/radio<\/a>\u00a0tomorrow morning. To call in, simply dial (215) 953-4979 or send me an e-mail, which\u00a0will reach me as I’m on the air, due to the ever-present Crackberry glued to my hand. (My e-mail address is mbell@asicentral.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n Of the issues we’ll be discussing tomorrow, the new, more restrictive code announced by the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) last week will be the first hot topic. What this code says is that all non-educational items — such as pens, note pads, mugs and similar reminder items — should not be offered to healthcare professionals or members of their staff, even if they’re accompanied by patient or physician educational materials. This is due to take effect\u00a0in January, 2009 and will clearly have widespread repercussions for the industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n We will also be discussing\u00a0the results of a poll, posted on ASICentral, that asked industry professionals who they were more likely to vote for — Barack Obama or John McCain. I’ll leave you in suspense, but do call\u00a0in to\u00a0get Joe Haley’s back as\u00a0he — the lone conservative Republican — squares off against the other four liberal Democrat editors. \u00a0<\/p>\n And for those of you I haven’t spoken with, yes, we will be working without a five-second delay, so what you hear will be live and uncensored. This fact — and the penchant Kathy Huston and I have for dropping the “f bomb” — has ASI’s president and CEO, Tim Andrews, wringing his hands, shaking his head and walking the halls here at ASI muttering “FCC fines” under his breath. And, did I mention that for our inaugural show, the five of us will be drinking morning cocktails? Let the games begin… ; )<\/p>\n Tune in tomorrow and cheers!<\/p>\n — Michele\u00a0 Happy Monday (an oxymoron if there ever was one…), Everyone! Last week, I wrote a blog\u00a0entitled “The Mouths that Roared,” regarding the debut of ASI Radio. The weekly half-hour live\u00a0call-in talk radio\u00a0show kicks off tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern time) and\u00a0will feature ASI’s five senior editors — Melinda Ligos, editor-in-chief; Kathy Huston, editor of Advantages; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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