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Hints for brand names vs generic drugs - sm

Posted: Aug 11, 2011

I was hoping some more experienced MTs could help me with something. I am struggling with remembering which are brand names and which are generics (so I know to cap them or not). Is there some trick to this? A website that can quickly (and obviously) tell you? Perhaps some software you all have? Please, it is driving me crazy and my quality is suffering :(

Could you put them in your - expander?

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Place the drugs in your expander so that the brand named ones come in capitalized? That way, you only have to look them up once.

Look them up the first time, put them in your word expander and - Olive

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then you will learn them by using them. Drugs.com gives the generic name and the brand name. I still use my book American Drug Index.

I do it like this - sm

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Same idea as the good suggestions above - I instruct my dictionary to capitalize it. This way, I type diovan and it corrects to "Diovan".

brand/generics - website

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http://www.needymeds.org/ A website I like for brand/generic names.

If in doubt I don't capitalize and wait for - ruby

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Stedman's to mark it when I spell check if it should be capitalized. Is this wrong?

Brand or generic - anon

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Use RXlist.com and as you go put them in your shorthand expander; Instant Text, Shorthand, even word autocorrect. Put them all in as generics and then put the word you want typed as a Brand if that is the case. Like coumadin: Put in coumadin lower case, then replace with, put Coumadin with a cap. That way every time you type coumadin it will jsut cap for you and you won't have to remember each time. On generics, just leave alone. Because you are typing everything lower case, the only ones that will get replaced with a cap is the brand. Hope this makes sense.

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