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Most druggists do not carry these generic equivalents. As a pharmacist in the Square said, "No one asks for them. So why should we stock them?" But the generics can be bought, mainly at larger drug stores in Boston...
...getting a lot of dirty looks," he said, "from druggists and from my colleagues, and I couldn't understand it. Then one day a pharmacist called me up and asked me to be his personal physician. 'You're the only doctor who prescribes generics. so you must really know something,' he told me. Then I found out about the tremendous price differences. I really had not known until then. What I wanted to do first was just to make up mimeographed sheets of price differences and distribute them to the teaching hospitals...
After Terry Hayes racked up the highest academic rating (3.93) in 30 years at Los Angeles' all-Negro Jordan High, Ivy League representatives rushed to his home, just three blocks from where the Watts riots began. Son of a pharmacist (both his parents have college degrees), Terry was president of his class, chief justice of the student court and a political science major. He is working for college money as a computer technologist at North American Aviation's Autonetics Division, and has been awarded full scholarships by both Harvard and Stanford. He hopes to become a diplomat...
...drug industry, he says, spends $600 million annually on advertising -- four times what it spends on research. And laws in 39 states make it mandatory for a pharmacist to sell a patient the brand name if his doctor orders it on a prescription. If he writes a generic name, however, the pharmacist may do as he pleases...
...pharmacist in the Square said...