Gulfport Healthcare: November 2010

Meet Peter Scribner

By Shelly Wilson

Gabber Magazine 2005

There's so much talk and controversy over prescription drugs these days, you probably don't want to read any further.

However, reading this article might just give you a little more than you bargained for - like some answers.

Meet Peter F. Scribner, President of Gulfport Healthcare, Inc. With a name like that, you already know you won't be dealing with some huge company - and, in the world of prescription drugs, that's definitely a good thing.

Scribner, a stockbroker in his former life, moved to the area several years ago. When his wife became ill, her medication bills were near $25,000 a month. Scribner became very familiar with the outrageous costs of healthcare, and particularly medication.

"I thought to myself, 'What on earth do people without insurance do?'" explains Scribner. "I felt a definite need to help people in that situation."

It was out of that belief that Gulfport Healthcare was born.

Gulfport Healthcare is not an insurance company. Its focus is on prescription medication and other healthcare needs for those unwilling or unable to spend their life's savings to get them. The company is really about empowering people to find reasonable prices for the medication and supplies they need.

With the availability of 5,000 different prescription and generic drugs, and great savings on eye glasses, contacts, natural remedies and more, Gulfport Healthcare provides customers user-friendly access to virtually any healthcare supply or prescription they need. From name brand and generic medications,
Gulfport Healthcare provides all of your medications at an average savings of over 50% - no special cards or plans needed.

How does that work, you ask? Well, it's no trick.

Gulfport Healthcare's services are available entirely online at GulfportHealthcare.net, though Scribner is more than happy to help customers over the phone or make house calls. Working in a partnership with a well respected online Canadian pharmacy, Gulfport Healthcare can provide you with the exact same safe medications you get from your local pharmacy.

Because the Canadian Government has drug pricing polices different from those of the United States, Gulfport Healthcare is able to bring you those medications at significantly lower prices. Same drugs - lower prices. No strings, guaranteed.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Immediate Gratification For Breaking Bad Habits

5:23 AM | Posted by Peter Scribner | Edit Post

A habit is any process that we have executed so often that it becomes virtually an involuntary response. If we believe this habit to be unsuitable then we might label it a "bad habit". Individuals spend infinite hours and dollars yearly attempting to break these bad habits and oftentimes don't have any success. How come? Because there's no magic bullet. Modification is hard work and there's no short cut to accomplishing it. The steps an individual needs to take, though, can be very simply outlined. To force a change in habits, one needs to bring the action back into the region of consciousness and find the power to make choices.

The beginning step in breaking a bad habit is to view why you find this action so compelling. Put differently, what's the reward for doing this apparently damaging thing? Since you've already relegated this as a "bad" habit you might be tempted to say there isn't one. However look closer. There's always a reward. Let's say your bad habit is screaming at your kids. What's in it for you? You blow off some steam and feel a bit better for the time being. Or you've a bad habit of leaving the dishes dirty? The reward may be that you get to spend more time on the Net!

Following, consider the trade-off. What is it that you're missing by doing your habit? This step ought to be easier. Just consider why it is that you believe it a bad habit in the first place. Screaming at your children is a bad habit as it leaves everyone feeling tense and pulls down your kid’s self-regard. You're trading a temporary dismissal of tension for the emotional wellness of your kids. Leaving the dishes dirty is a bad habit as your kitchen is a stinking mess. To have more Net time you're swapping off having pleasant living surroundings. When you view it that way it doesn't seem like you're making very sensible choices, does it? There has to be a more beneficial way.

By now you ought to realize that the only way to carry on with a bad habit for very long is to settle back into denial of why you're doing it in the first place. For each one time you start to restart your old patterns the thought will pass across your mind that you're trading X for Y for each one time you execute that action. You'll be forced to make a choice, whether good for bad, about persisting in your habit. What selections will you make? The one that makes you feel sorry about yourself or the one that makes you feel fine? It's up to you.