Comments on: More on Walmart’s $4 generic medications http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/09/more-on-walmarts-4-generic-medications.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gasmanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/09/more-on-walmarts-4-generic-medications.html#comment-67332 Gasman Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/09/more-on-walmarts-4-generic-medications.html#comment-67332 I'm not sweating the restricted formulary that the Wal-Mart list will create. Most of the drugs within categories are quite equivalent enough. Equivalence or superiority studies all have some contrivance in the experimental design to help insure the desired statistical outcome. <br/><br/>The real struggle is going to be for prescribers who know how to use only the drugs that the drug rep pushes. Gotta go back and relearn how to use the drugs that were cutting edge back in med school a decade or so ago. I’m not sweating the restricted formulary that the Wal-Mart list will create. Most of the drugs within categories are quite equivalent enough. Equivalence or superiority studies all have some contrivance in the experimental design to help insure the desired statistical outcome.

The real struggle is going to be for prescribers who know how to use only the drugs that the drug rep pushes. Gotta go back and relearn how to use the drugs that were cutting edge back in med school a decade or so ago.

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