Everybody but me,
Generics are spoken of in the health section of nytimes, titled Not All drugs are the same After All.
www.poplespharmacy.
Timothy Baldwin
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From: TIMOTHY BALDWIN <tbb1@prodigy.
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 12:00:32 PM
Subject: RE: [epilepsy] Use of Generic drugs.
Dave,
A patent lasted only 7 years, the company that developed the covering of the therapeutic drug. The therapeutic drug is all that is required to be included in any generic from of that brand name medicine which has allot more to it than just that one ingredient. That is why so many/none of the generic forms have the same have life of the brand name, and cost so little, because you only get what you pay for. Ambulances are unnecessary for people who have been diagnosed with epilepsy, unless the seizure does not stop in five minutes or another starts just after that. The paramedic just wants to take the person to a hospital so they will be billed separately by the fire department, hospital and physician. If not taken to hospital, the responce to pick that person up costs that person nothing unless that person is hauled away to hospital. If that person requests to sign a Release Of Responsibility form and my sign a Refusal of Care Form either of which
releases the paramedic from any legal responsibility if anything happens to that person afterward, BUT just after a seizure that person isn't able to think of what to ask for. The paramedic probably knows this takes advantage of that...
--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Dave Fales <matthew_17_
> From: Dave Fales <matthew_17_
> Subject: RE: [epilepsy] Use of Generic drugs.
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com
> Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 10:20 PM
>
> people who are dumb enough to pay cash for name brand is
> who gets it I know on the amblunce I worked on the only name
> brand drugs in the drug boxes are the ones who were still on
> patent which is a certin number of years I forgot now how
> many years they get on it but it is for a while I belive it
> is like 20 years
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> To: epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com
> From: tiscione@gmail. com
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:06:59 -0800
> Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Use of Generic drugs.
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> I'm not sure who even gets brand-names. .. I shelled out for
> the "cadillac"
> insurance at work and they still only pay for generics once
> a drug falls off
> patent. Your doctor can scribble brand-name on the script
> but you'll see a
> higher co-pay.
>
> One thing to watch out for is "evergreening" . When a drug
> falls off patent
> they often make a little tweak to it and patent the tweaked
> version under a
> new name to "evergreen" the patent. E.g. Lexapro
> (escitalopram) is a tiny
> tweak of Celexa (citalopram) that they repatented. The only
> difference is
> that the mirror-image left-handed molecule is removed from
> the tablets. It
> didn't do anything anyway. The active ingredient is the
> right-handed version
> and it's still the same molecule in Lexapro as it was in
> Celexa. But you can
> get Celexa as a generic; Lexapro is brand-name only.
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Dave Fales <matthew_17_
> wrote:
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> >
> > well used to be a paramedic and was taking calsses for
> nursing school sao
> > had lots of drug classes and found out in fact most of
> what you get on the
> > mabulance is generic drugs
> >
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> > To: epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com
> > From: tiscione@gmail. com
> > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:36:42 -0800
> > Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Use of Generic drugs.
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > I secretly think you're mostly right about this
> (except notably for generic
> > Tegretol, a few years ago) but this list goes up 20
> decibels whenever this
> > subject comes up.
> >
> > Shhhh,
> > -Jason ;)
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Dave Fales <matthew_17_
> wrote:
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> > >
> > > generic and name brand are the same thing just
> one is made by a name
> > brand
> > > company and they put thtere name on it on generic
> they just have the
> > > chemical druig name
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