Many U.S. physicians often fulfill patient requests for brand-name drugs instead of equivalent generics

Monday, January 7, 2013 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

More than a third of U.S. physicians responding to a national survey indicated they often or sometimes prescribed brand-name drugs when appropriate generic substitutes were available simply because patients requested the brand-name drug.

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