Dream

I must be not sleeping very well recently and keep having funny dreams.

Here is another one I had just last night.

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(During a senior official meeting in the headquarters of a famous drug company X.)

"How much should we sell our new medicine Xyzimab ?" The marketing manager begins.

"What's the cost of making it ?" The scientific officer asks.

"The manufacturing cost is trivial - but that's quite irrelevant," the man sitting at the end of the long table said, "We need to cover the money we poured in for its development, and we need a good profit. Since the standard dose for the treatment of nephrologist's dementia - our licenced indication - is 0.1 mg, let's make it the vial size and sell it at $10000 per vial. After all, we are the only one to make this drug."

"Not exactly," the naive scientist interjects again, "I know company Z is making Zyximab, a similar product; they are selling it for the treatment of Szeto's syndrome - an entirely different disease."

"Really ...?" the rest of the table all gasped.

"Yes. In fact, the dosage to treat Szeto's syndrome is actually 10 mg, and therefore that drug comes in vials of that amount. Company Z will soon know that Xyzimab and Zyximab are almost identical, and they would advocate to give a tiny dose of their product to treat nephrologist's dementia!"

"Don't worry. That won't happen." The chairman said with confidence.

(To be continued.)