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To: VLAD who wrote (9353)	6/8/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: j bayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

and what if vvus scrips do not recover (in the US)? Where could we expect the price of this stock to land?? Comments..

To: VLAD who wrote (9353)	6/8/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: DaiS	Respond to of 23519

Vlad, Here is the UK price information. For a private prescription the cost of muse per 6-pack is: 125ug œ78.32 $127 250ug œ80.80 $131 500ug œ80.80 $131 (yes the same price as 250ug) 1000ug œ82.37 $133 Almost everyone pays National Insurance - the Government health scheme (NHS). The cost per perscription is œ5.80 $9.40 so in practice we would pay less than $2 a go for muse. Many people, for example the disabled, pensioners and the unemployed are exempt prescription charges so they would pay nothing for muse. It will be interesting to see if the NHS can cope financially with viagra. The cost of muse to individuals will, I think, be much more in some other European countries. DaiS

To: VLAD who wrote (9353)	6/8/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: DaiS	Respond to of 23519

Vlad, Following my visit to the doctor in charge of the local ED clinic last week, I visited two pharmacies today (dispensing chemists). It was amusing that the more I insisted that I was interested in stats, the more convinced the pharmacist was that I was trying to camouflage the fact that I suffered from ED! The first was probably the largest chemist in in town. I suggested that muse was a dead loss, but no they had loads and loads of men coming in for it - my heart leapt - 100s - no at least 15-20 a week. The pharmacist said that the demand was rather erratic, citing one Saturday when 5 men came in for it and that there was a run on it following publication of either an ad or article in a recent Sunday newspaper supplement - she could not remember the details. This pharmacist also suggested that her dispensing rate might be unusually high because men were more likely to come to her than their local chemist where they would be known and thus embarrassed. The second was a small suburban chemist. Yes they dispensed muse, they had two regular customers who came in every few weeks (so there are some brave souls prepared to visit the local chemist). (Thus, two men, sex once a week, overall one pack every three weeks.) There are 52 dispensing chemists in my town and suburbs (population 200K). RIGHT my conservative estimate is 25 per week for the town (I could be way too conservative if some of the larger chemists have 2-3 men per week or more). Population of UK 60 millions, my town 200K, prescriptions per week = 60million/200K x 25 = 7500 Population of USA, 280 million, thus pro rata for USA this becomes roughly 4x7500 = 30,000 Really I don't want to defend this calculation on so few data. I still have failed to get the script data for UK but will keep trying this week. DaiS