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My husband and I recently attended a trauma conference in Seattle at Harborview Medical Center, the tertiary referral centre for literally the entire Pacific Northwest. In addition to Washington, it services the WAMI states (Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alaska—states without medical schools) and yes, even British Columbia.

The process of pharmacists interchanging drugs to their generic equivalent is anything but arbitrary.

Pharmacists switching ADD/ADHD drug for generic ‘equivalent’ is just one example of a questionable practice, says family physician.