{"id":1839,"date":"2017-07-04T05:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:40:02","slug":"generic-vs-branded-what-does-the-medical-community-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/generic-vs-branded-what-does-the-medical-community-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic vs Branded Drugs &#8211; A poll for Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how the medical community has responded to a quick poll on generic vs branded questions.<br \/>\n<span id=\":7iz.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">PM Modi\u2019s speech on insistence of the generics stirred a hornet\u2019s nest. While the intentions are good, implementation will be a challenge, feel medical professionals. While it aims to minimise the doctor\u2019s power play, in reality the power may just shift to the pharmacy counters, feel many.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Will having a legal framework for prescribing generics make drug less expensive for patients?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1794 img-size\" src=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"legal framework for prescribing generics\" width=\"900\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Do you trust the quality of generic drugs?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1797 img-size\" src=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"63% doctors trust the quality of generic drugs\" width=\"900\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Will \u200ba notification of \u200b prescribing only the generic name\u200b help the patients?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1796 img-size\" src=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"77% doctors feel that notification of prescribing only the generic name will not help the patients\" width=\"900\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Would you recommend generic drugs from unknown manufacturers?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1797 img-size\" src=\"http:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dociontosh-infographics-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"62% doctors do not recommend generic drugs from unknown manufacturers\" width=\"900\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get a different POV on drugs, <a href=\"https:\/\/brandcare.net\/blog\/sure-we-make-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how the medical community has responded to a quick poll on generic vs branded questions. PM Modi&rsquo;s speech on insistence of the generics stirred a hornet&rsquo;s nest. While the intentions are good, implementation will be a challenge, feel medical professionals. While it aims to minimise the doctor&rsquo;s power play, in reality the power &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doctalk"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandcare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}