Monday, October 31, 2011

Giving Medicines More Descriptive and Accurate Names

Recently, a patient’s mom asked me why I was prescribing an antidepressant, fluoxetine (the generic form of Prozac), for her son’s anxiety disorder. Jeremy had started on this medication in the past few weeks. When I first prescribed it, I carefully outlined the target symptom of anxiety and explained how the medicine would help treat [...]

Source: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/09/rename-medicines-bipolar-depression/

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