Replies to post #1058 on GenoMed Inc. (GMED)

[nextofkin]

herkyhawk05, keep the faith when this company takes off I see it becoming a major company.

Thanks very much for your kind words about the website and the company.

Your question about getting national attention was right on the mark. Over the past four years we've contacted all the players you could imagine to help us get the word out: local, state, national and international public health authorities; private and government health plans; employers; unions; professional medical societies; local, state, and national politicians; celebrities with a disease; newspapers; radio and TV stations; local religious groups; non-profit groups representing various ethnicities and the aged; non-profit groups which raise money for research; medical schools; etc. Not a single person has come forward to help us, even though the public looks to these sources for their healthcare news.

The overwhelming sense I've gotten is that nobody wants to rock the boat. Nobody wants to disturb the status quo, and their lucrative place in it. After all, it's a $2 trillion a year cash cow for all concerned. The only victim, if there's any at all--and all of the above groups will deny to their dying breath that patients are getting in any way short-changed--is the poor patient.

Unlike Big Pharma or the Government, we don't have the billions of dollars required for direct-to-consumer advertising.

So, in this age of supposedly instant communication, we're relying on old-fashioned word of mouth. News of penicillin spread faster in the 1930s than news of our ability to prevent 90% of kidney dialysis. After four years, our cure for kidney failure remains a well-kept secret. Perhaps it's because in the 1930s, there wasn't a $25 billion a year dialysis industry that wanted to preserve the status quo. Ditto for Gilead, Roche and Tamiflu (we have a potential cure for bird flu), the vaccine industry and West Nile virus encephalitis, etc. What player in a $2 trillion a year poker game would want the pot to suddenly shrink by 90%?

After four years of trying, I'd have to say that the only way we're going to get the word out is if people take it upon themselves to spread the story, one person at a time. Every family has somebody in it we could help.

This is just one more reason not to believe everything you see on TV.

Yours sincerely,

David W. Moskowitz MD FACP
Chief medical officer & CEO
GenoMed, Inc.