Attention: Doctors
There are large numbers of medicine manufacturing establishments in Bangladesh which are marketing medicines of same chemical formula in different trade names. It is not possible for a doctor to remember all these trade names. It is not also possible for the medicine-manufacturing establishments to make the information of their medicines available to each and every doctor. The prescriber's guides that are available in the market are also incomplete.
Under the circumstances, when a patient comes to a second doctor with a prescription made by an earlier doctor, the second doctor may find it difficult to prescribe when the trade name of the medicines previously prescribed are not known to him.
Furthermore, if the second doctor shows his ignorance about the name of the previously prescribed medicines, the patient thinks that the knowledge of the second doctor is very poor. It is a matter of shame and disgrace to the second doctor.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. It is therefore requested (for the interest and benefit of both the doctors and patients) that all doctors mention generic names within bracket against the trade names of the medicines.