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To the Editor:
The front page article iri the
November 11th edition of the
Gamecock presented a very unfair
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in the Columbia area. The article
was a summation of the results
from a very limited and biased
survey conducted on prescription
prices in various stores in the
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engineering area.
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Columbia area, both chain and
independent. The survey encompassed
4 stores, 3 chains and 1
independent, out of over 58
pharmacies listed in the yellow
pages of the Columbia phone
directory, 38 of these stores are
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cent of the total store number, with
75 per cent of the participating
stores being chains which are
outnumbered 2 to 1 by the independents
in the Columbia
market.
The small percentage of the
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incomplete reporting of the data,
made the article worthless to
anyone familiar with the pharmaceutical
market and misleading
to the general public. The prices
were incomplete due to the lack of
strengths included with 80 per cent
of the medications listed?Darvon
Compound-65 and Empirin No. 3 have
the strength as part of their
trade name. The other medications
come in various strengths such as:
Valium comes in 3 strengths,
Premarin in 4 strengths, Ampicillin
in 2 strengths and is
marketed by 40 different companies,
Lasix in 2 strengths,
Tetracycline in 3 strengths and is
marketed by 61 different companies,
Librium in 3 strengths, VCillin
K in 3 strengths and Aldomet
in 2 strengths. Thus without the
strength given, the prices listed
are as useful as a series of random
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looking at as they are unrealistic in
certain cases. V-Cillin K and
Tetracycline are antibiotics and
are very rarely prescribed in the
quantity of 100 dosage units. Lasix
is a potent diuretic and the 100
tablets priced would be a 1.5-3
month supply of the medication.
Aldomet can not be commented on
as no quantity was given. The
Darvon Compound-85 quantity is
unrealistically high also. Valium,
Librium, and Emoirin Compound
No. 3. are under Federal Law as to
the number that may be prescribed
at any one time (Darvon Compound
65 will soon come under
these same regulations). That
leaves only 30 per cent of the
medications listed in normally
prescribed amounts?Premarin,
Ampicillin, and Librium.
The article did not mention the
professional courtesies offered by
many stores, such as free in city
delivery service and maintaining
of patient medication profiles.
These profiles provide the phar
students collected
goods to help brig
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Wargamer club
disclaims letter
To the Editor:
I would, as co-founder and
current Treasurer of the
wargamer s sxxnety, appreciate it
if you would print this letter as a
disclaimer to Mr. Herchak's letter
on behalf of our club, The
Wargamer's Society of USC.
Mr. Herchak's opinion on football
is his and his alone?if he used
club stationary to expound these
views he was wrong and if he
signed the letter noting our club he
was even more incorrect.
JOHN C. HOPKINS
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mncifit with a mpnns nf phivlrind
for possible drug-drug interactions
which are possible in today's multi
prescriber society. These services
are offered by many of the independents,
but to my knowledge
none of the chains offer these
services.
This letter is not to discredit the
professionalism of the chains
because as the article stated, they
do have a higher volume and
handle many customers per day. I
do object to the bias of the survey
and article as I feel that it is up to
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pharmacy but hopefully the
decision will not be based upon
price alone. Some of the chains
offer a more professional attitude
than the independents which is the
way pharmacy is to be practiced?
as a profession and a service to the
public. Question to the editor: Why
were all medications in the photo
Class II controlled substances?
DAVID SMITH
president, Kappa Psi pharmaceutical
fraternity
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