The cases for and against prescribing generic drugs: generic prescribing benefits patients.
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The cases for and against prescribing generic drugs: generic prescribing benefits patients.
Patients have certain expectations. High on their list will be the wish that doctors are impartial and that the choice of the drugs they prescribe is based on independent information rather than on partisan advice from a drug company. The pharmaceutical industry believes and acts otherwise, and the success with which drug companies have gained the initiative and currently dominate therapeutic p...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.297.6663.1596