Ken Johnson Prescribed Quotations

Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to medicines different from those prescribed by their physicians. They are not generic copies of the prescribed treatments. Patients differ from one another, as do medicines in a therapeutic class. It is important that the patient and his or her physician determine which medicine is right for the patient.

Pill splitting can potentially harm a patient due to the adverse effects an incorrect and inaccurate dosage of a prescribed medicine can have on their health.