In my personal experience playing God practicing medicine, 9 times out of 10, if not more, generics work as effectively as the branded original they mirror. To be honest, for many older meds, I’ve gone out of my way to forget the branded name. There is no real difference between Prozac & fluoxetine, between Lotensin & lisinopril or Claritin & loratidine. More offen the trouble is with newer classes of drugs, which are often replacing older classes of medications, and where all of the drugs in the newer class are new enough that there are none in the class old enough to be generic. Think many of the newer meds for diabetes like the GLP-1 analogs or the SGPT-2 antagonists, which are both far better than the sulfonylureas they are replacing at enormous cost to the patients and at times their insurers.
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Date: 2020-01-11 07:51 am (UTC)In my personal experience
playing Godpracticing medicine, 9 times out of 10, if not more, generics work as effectively as the branded original they mirror. To be honest, for many older meds, I’ve gone out of my way to forget the branded name. There is no real difference between Prozac & fluoxetine, between Lotensin & lisinopril or Claritin & loratidine. More offen the trouble is with newer classes of drugs, which are often replacing older classes of medications, and where all of the drugs in the newer class are new enough that there are none in the class old enough to be generic. Think many of the newer meds for diabetes like the GLP-1 analogs or the SGPT-2 antagonists, which are both far better than the sulfonylureas they are replacing at enormous cost to the patients and at times their insurers.Sent from my iPhone