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A fierce battle between MDs & RPhs on Rx of ingredient names

By Kang, Shin-Kook | translator Choi HeeYoung

22.11.01 12:10:18

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The pharmaceutical industry fluctuated due to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety's remarks on 'consent to prescription of ingredient names'

Doctors say, "To resolve public inconvenience, selective division of labor is the answer, not the name of the ingredient."

Pharmacists said, "Why prescribe generic if MDs don't believe in the efficacy of generic drugs? It's because of the rebate"

A fight between pharmaceutical organizations has begun over the prescription of ingredient names. Oh Yoo-kyung, head of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, made an excuse to actively agree to the prescription of the ingredient name, and complaints that have accumulated have been erupting. First, doctors are insisting that patients choose in-house and outpatient preparations. It is also a new opinion of doctors to use a dispensing vending machine. Some suggested that if a vending machine is introduced, doctors will guide the medication directly without receiving medication. In addition, when prescribed with the ingredient name, pharmacists choose the medicine, and the drug equivalence for the generic selected by pharmac

Kang, Shin-Kook(ksk@dailypharm.com)
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