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How to Handle Gaslighting at Workplace – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #870 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #870 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Dziana Hasanbekava Credit: Keira Burton It is not possible to thrive under a boss who actively undermines your accomplishments, attacks your self-esteem, and blocks growth opportunities. If the boss is visibly toxic, he/she can be challenged or reported, but gaslighting bosses work insidiously, are never explicit about it, and work without apparently breaking any rules.  Here is some advice from Mary Abbajay, author of ‘Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss’, and President of Careerstone Group LLC. [Quote] Make sure ...

Gaslighting at Workplaces; Presentation, Causes, Effects – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #869 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #869 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alex Green Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Vlada Karpovich Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or group covertly sows seeds of doubt in another person or group, making them question their own understanding, memory, perception, or judgment. The term originates from the 1938 play "Gas Light" and the subsequent movie adaptations, where a husband manipulates his wife into believing she is going insane by dimming the gas lights in their home, while insisting that she is imagining it. Gaslighting can be done th...

The Ozempic® Epidemic – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #868 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #868 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Andes Ayrton Credit: John Diez Credit: nappy The Medicine and the Medical Information Ozempic® is a drug for Type 2 diabetes. It contains active ingredient Semaglutide. It is in the form of injection which should be given once weekly under the skin. Ozempic was approved in December 2017. Semaglutide was developed and marketed by a Danish company, Novo Nordisk. Price for 1mg injection in Pakistan is almost 20,000. Ozempic is available as subcutaneous injection. It belongs to the class of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analog. It is also indicated for reducing the risk of majo...

Doing Pharma Business in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #867 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #867 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Antoni Shkraba Credit: Suzy Hazelwood Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko There are two countering narratives on the matter of ease of doing business in Pakistan. One view is that it is quite easy to do business here because the implementation of regulations is weak; the other view is that it is quite difficult to do business here because the regulations are adverse and business-unfriendly, and corruption among officials is rampant. The second view is more factual. Pharma business in Pakistan is highly regulated at all stages, with regulations aimed at policing and contro...

Analysis of DRAP Performance – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #866 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #866 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Thirdman Credit: Zakir Rushanly Credit: Zakir Rushanly This blogpost partakes from a June 2022 article by Shahid Mehmood of PIDE, published in Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Link at the end. DRAP – Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan is the regulatory body for regulating the pharma industry, and it is not always straightforward to analyze the performance of a regulator. Indirectly, the status and performance of pharma industry in any country reflects the performance of its regulator. It is also true that the industry and regulator have a love-hate relationship; they det...

Global Drug Pricing Practices and Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #865 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #865 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: CDC Credit: Los Mortes Crew Credit: MART Production This blogpost partakes from an excellent article by ZUD Babar, published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice. Link at the end. The medicines pricing policies of country should cover the following objectives. a. To ensure access to effective, safe, and quality assured affordable medicines for all, b. To establish fair medicines pricing mechanisms that can improve access, c. To support the pharmaceutical industry. It is also important to understand the global medicines pricing setup....

Drug Sales Channels – Drug Pricing in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #864 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #864 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ana Sofia Bustamante Credit: Jose Ismael Espinola Credit: World Sikh Organization of Canada We have seen drug pricing in relation to government policies, its historical perspective, and the controversies. It would now be instructive to understand drug sales channels and how these may impact the drug pricing for the consumers. Drug Sales Channels The channels are distributors, wholesalers, and retail pharmacies, each of whom gets a certain percentage as service charges. Since the maximum selling price of a drug is fixed by DRAP already, these percentag...