The Dirty Little Secrets in Medicine

When she was prescribing birth control back in the day it was all name brand and it was very standard. All of a sudden the year things went generic I started getting phone calls. The pharmacy doesn't have to tell you they just substitute it. That's why now on prescriptions it says do not substitute if they absolutely need a name brand. So this is like think about that. There are certain things that okay for the cost difference it's going to cost $500 for this medicine or the generic is 80. And it's something that it's still going to work. But there's other things like hormones that have to be so specific. You miss one pill by two hours. There are some

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