I hope that after reading, you'll have learned some easy lessons about learning the hard way. No single doctor has all the answers, regardless of his or her intelligence or best intentions. When your problem is serious, you owe it to yourself to play an active role in the process of getting the best care possible. Learn about your options. Seek second opinions. Question an approach to care that makes you uncomfortable, or that doesn't fit with your philosophy of health and wellness. Always keep in mind that you are the #1 expert on your body: you live inside of it, feel it, experience its norms and its changes year in, year out. Certainly you can and should play an active and important role in its care. Good health care professionals will appreciate your playing that role; it makes their jobs easier by taking some of the mystery out of the diagnostic process and by creating a cooperative, interactive approach to your health management that is quietly becoming the new (and more effective) medicine of the future.
A generic drug is made with the same active ingredients and is available in thesame strength and dosage form as the equivalent brand-name product. Generic drugs produce the same effects in the body as the brand-name drugs, because both contain the identical active ingredients...