Robert Pyke:
CLASS OF 1959
Bishop Noll InstituteClass of 1959
Hammond, IN
Robert's Story
Dear Classmates,
Most of you may be retired already, but not me - still plugging away at drug development for a big-pharma company, Boehringer-Ingelheim in Connecticut. They've killed the project I helped lead for the last 14 years--flibanserin to treat depression and then to treat women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. But I can't complain about this privately held German company since it is very well ranked in terms of employee satisfaction. Still, you know I was never fond of authorities or what they enforce, conventionality (remember my red baseball cap?). And there's no set of authorities like a German set of authorities; just ask Poland.
Jumping into pharmaceutical consulting and facilitating mental healthcare is what I want to do next. It would be a takeoff of sorts from my greatest professional ple...Expand for more
asure: helping patients as an internist at an anxiety clinic in the 1980s while I worked for Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It showed me there's a bridge that needs to be built: primary care doctors don't listen to their patients for more than half a minute before they butt in and start asking yes-or-no questions. Psychiatrists listen for 50 minutes without asking much at all. In the anxiety clinic I had a psychologist to listen; I used a 35-question self-rating symptom scale to give me a window into the patients' lives and a springboard to asking what was going on. And of course it told me how they were improving or getting worse. Now if only that kind of thing could be done online! Would love to hear from you if any of this strikes a chord or gets you thinking.
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