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Biotech / Medical : Chromatics Color Sciences International. Inc; CCSI -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (1455)	3/18/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Gurupup	Respond to of 5736

M, It is obvious that you know your stuff. I am sure a lot if not most of the medical terminology is going over people's heads. I know it is going over mine. The market size, and pricing ideas from our naysayers is so far off the mark as to be laughable, but why waste time explaining, they don't want to listen anyway. I did have 2 money managers and a doctor talk to Avalon today, and all three said they were a disgrace. CCSI is going down to $2, that is all you have to know, wait until the bad news comes, the company is a sham. Real sophisticated stuff. A bucket shop run by slimeballs. Dan, Pinky, David really don't want any responses they just want to roil the waters, the problem is they are rank amateurs, small little odd-lotters, huffing and gruffing to scare people. They get their attention so this keeps them off the streets, which is probably a good thing, because if any of them had to think for themselves they would be out of luck..The only thing you can be sure of is that none of them are professionals. just real small time operators and real small time thinkers.

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (1455)	3/18/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Dan Packer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5736

Mike - I congratulate you. You deftly caught my joke on Rotor's syndrome recognizing that I was describing an intrahepatic obstructive-like cause rather than an overproduction of pigment, some functional block of excretion coupled with a fetal protein system that lacks binding sites. I'm not really sure that you can really follow the course of really high bilirubins with this indirect measurement. It all depends on clinical comfort levels. I would think that you would want exact measurements. "Close" may be good enough in government work and hand grenades, but may not be good enough for babies. I recognize that you'd like to bill for $3 tylenol tablets, but gee. Frankly I would suspect that the actual use for this device would be as a screening tool. A neonatal unit might buy it, and then use it to corroborate clinical eyeballing. The cost would be bundled with the global unit fee. Ethical places would do that. That's the problem with fee-for-service, there's an incentive for "one more test". In this case, the Colormate 3 might simply give you more reliable care, with zero marginal charge to the patient. The billing would be the same as for a tympanic temperature measurement, zero. Hepatitis is a big problem in Asia. Does regular global bilirubin measurement help? With an alcoholic, does the colorimeter test rule in, or rule out surgically correctible obstructive disease? You're right about the market size, you could break into song: "Oh, you wonder where the yellow went, if you brush your folks with Pepsodent?" Something like that. Dan the Rotorman - Consider the lilies of the field: They toil not, neither do they spin.