PhilT
7 January 2025 20:41
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One can go to a Chemist and ask for the ‘name brand’. If it is not in stock do chemists, CW or otherwise, decline to order it in?
Accepting that not all generics are the same, and generics can vary from the original named brand, if the customer is happy with a generic, do customers specify which generic ever, or often?
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On a recent visit to our local Amcal pharmacy, we were told that the proprietary brand of prescription medicine that we normally buy, would no longer be stocked, and only a generic brand would be on offer.
I think that it is generally believed that it is more profitable for the pharmacy to sell the generic item instead of a proprietary brand.
This is not a quibble about generic drugs per se, but about the chemist not offering a CHOICE of brands, at the expense of reducing the competition of th…
There are generic alternatives to Telfast. Ask at your local pharmacy
As a pensioner receiving discount on Generic medication it is very confusing when a repeat is needed, pharmacies change the name of the medication monthly which means a different colour and size of the tablets. Lucky that I don’t take too many tablets but I think that for older patients it is very confusing to decipher the correct one. We are pressured into taking whatever the pharmacy stock was issued with at that particular month.
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