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Yes, I can see that you think I'm some dumb fuck who is taken in by snake oil salesmen. The drug preparation I'm talking about has been proven effective at lower doses than the generic in proper trials, not just the usual double blind controlled trials using spirometry (it's an asthma drug) to objectively measure effectiveness, rather than just patients' subjective reports, but also backed up with chemical analysis demonstrating that the active molecule ends up where it should be more with the patented preparation than with the generic. I read the user group recommendation, then the manufacturer's marketing, and then the trial reports, before asking my doctor to switch me to the new version. Even after all that, I'd have been open to hearing his critique of my request if he'd had one, but he agreed completely that is was a better option, and clearly nearly everybody would be on it if we had private rather than public medicine, since any sensible person would pay the small extra charge. That's a different debate, though.