Give me my medicine!!

As I mentioned before, in a perfect world, in a perfect pharmacy, everything your heart desires can be found in surplus amounts. Things you’ve heard about before, things you never knew existed, and things that never have.

There is no such thing as “we will have that next week” or “ the company has stopped producing that” or “are you sure that’s how its spelt?”

In a perfect world, whatever you want, you get.

Which brings me to my point.

There is a lot of medication in our world. When a new medication is produced, it's under a patency. A lot of medication is overpriced either because a lot of money was spent on research and development, clinical trials and finally producing it, or because pharmaceutical companies want to rip you off.  Whichever the reason, it makes it very hard to acquire certain medication, that’s why some nice people decided to recreate the same medicine – the brand drug -  using the same active ingredient, but give it a different name and sell it for a much lower price. But that can only happen after the patency expires.That, my friends, is called a generic drug, which is the alternative of the original brand.

For some reason, many people do not trust the generic drug. They only trust the medication their physician has prescribed them and scribbled down on a piece of paper (without giving a hoot if it still exists or not, that’s not his job. That’s a pharmacist’s job. What’s that? Are you wondering what all those medical reps are doing then? Oh I don’t know. I guess the doctor is too busy to pay attention to EVERYTHING they tell him. Come ooon, cut the guy some slack.) People like that are quite difficult, and very hard to please. No matter how hard you try to explain that the medicine on the prescription is not available on the market and that they may take another one with the exact same substituent in the exact same concentration and get better, they will not have it. Just hearing the word generic makes them freak out!! What generic!? Oh Dear God, why?! Why why why!! This can’t be happening to them! Oh no!! You give them THAT medication, right this minute! Make it appear out of thin air or have it fly in from the US!! For all they care, you can send for it from Mars, but they want that medication. Ironically, they can’t even read the prescription so you could have acted like the generic was the drug prescribed, but there you go again with all your Pharmacist morals. 

Well, aren’t you pathetic.