E-DRUG: Medical doctors & belief in brand names
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[The issue of quality of generics and people's and doctors' belief that branded medicines are better has been extensively debated on E-drug. The belief in branded medicines can partly be explained by companies' influence on doctors. Try to search the archives at:
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Branded medicines can be both innovator medicines and branded generics. The latter is fairly common in Asia and Eastern Europe. One interesting point is that it is most often innovator medicines that are counterfeited. Moderator]
Dear friends,
I have come across an interesting observation. Some practising medical doctors insist that only a particular brand of company works better on the patient. The response with the same drug by other drug companies is not that effective. This is just their clinical observation. In fact some doctors swear by the drug of that company.
My observation is in India. Is this situation global?
Can somebody explain this phenomenon?
Are there any studies done in this regard?
From
Dr Gopal Dabade
57, Tejaswinagar,
Dharwad 580002,
INDIA
dabadedr@yahoo.com
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*Dear* *Dr Gopal Dabade,*
Yes you are right that doctors in india especially in urban and rural areas
doing like this.
In my observation point nursing home doctors,attached counters prefers
companies which gives more offers, individual pharmacies also practising
this, especially in OTC drugs.
And not only because of offers but also due to lack of communication of
physicians and lack of awareness about new drugs.
This is all happens only because of lack of knowledge about drugs and
believe of patients on doctors and chemists.
This problem can overcome only by globalisation.
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Regards,
Venkat.M
B.pharm
919440962335
pharmachinna@gmail.com
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In Nigeria there are quite a handful of doctors that
believe only in branded products and they can't really
be blamed because of the problem of counterfeiting or
poor quality of drugs.Ironically poor quality is not
peculiar to generics and it might even be more of a
problem with branded since branded drugs are trusted
more than generics then they are more likely to be
faked. Maybe a study will be carried out to confirm
this. The doctors don't swear by the company name.
From
Dr. Mrs. Bolajoko Ajoke AINA
Dept of Clinical Pharmacy and Biopharmacy,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Lagos, CMUL Campus,
Idi Araba, Lagos,
NIGERIA.
bolajokoaina@yahoo.com