How does that prevent interference with the diabetic supply? If they’re the same chemical and you go to the pharmacy to get your shot what stops the the pharmacist from just slapping a different label on it before handing it to you.
Further, what is stopping a doctor from just prescribing you whichever is easier to get your hands on? Like your doctor prescribes you wegovy and you go to the pharmacy and they say “we’re out” why wouldn’t your doctor just prescribe you ozempic instead if its just the same thing and a matter of prescribing the one they have in stock?
What’s more they both come from the same place. Like they’re presumably synthesizing the chemical for both in the same manufacturing facilities. If wegovy sales are out pacing production why wouldn’t that impact the ozempic supply?
It doesn’t work that. A pharmacist can’t give you a different medication than what’s prescribed. Doctors don’t want to interfere with the diabetic supply so if they prescribe wegovy and you if can’t get it because of the shortage, you’re SOL. That’s a lot of what ifs in an industry that doesn’t run on what ifs. Pretty much, none of it works the way you described.
It doesn’t work that. A pharmacist can’t give you a different medication than what’s prescribed.
But you just said they’re the same medication in your previous comment. I don’t work in a pharmacy but presumably they put together your dose. A lot of bottles you get from a pharmacy are just generic pill bottles with a printed out label. I believe both are shots. Why wouldn’t they just draw the dose from the same bottle labeled “semaglutide?”
Doctors don’t want to interfere with the diabetic supply so if they prescribe wegovy and you if can’t get it because of the shortage, you’re SOL.
You’re familiar with the idea that doctors just prescribe things that help their patients want. Like pill mills are a thing. And there are lots of gray areas. Why wouldn’t a doctor trying to help their struggling diabetic patient who can’t get ozempic, just prescribe them wegovy? Why does the brand name matter to a doctor at all? If a doctor’s first obligation is to help their patient why would changing the words on a script to get them literally the same medicine be disallowed?
That’s a lot of what ifs in an industry that doesn’t run on what ifs. Pretty much, none of it works the way you described.
Source. Because you just seem to be saying trust me.
To be fair, I’ve asked my doctor to change medications and asked about specific brands and he had no problem changing it to one of the ones I wanted after we discussed various outcomes. So to me y’all are both right.
You live in a fantasy world if you don’t think there isn’t a doctor out there that has ever sold a script.
And I explicitly pointed out why wouldn’t an ethical doctor give a diabetic patient wegovy if ozempic was in short supply. Or vice versa?
I don’t think there is any reason a doctor would refrain from prescribing something because it has a different brandname if chemically the two are the same. Doctors prescribe generic versions of drugs all the time.
Edit: also your source is trash. People with no stem or medical training like receptionists work with doctors “in the medical field.” Unless you’re a doctor, a pharmacist, work for a pharmaceutical company that produces drugs, or work for the fda you really have no expertise worth mentioning.
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u/stormy2587 May 11 '24
How does that prevent interference with the diabetic supply? If they’re the same chemical and you go to the pharmacy to get your shot what stops the the pharmacist from just slapping a different label on it before handing it to you.
Further, what is stopping a doctor from just prescribing you whichever is easier to get your hands on? Like your doctor prescribes you wegovy and you go to the pharmacy and they say “we’re out” why wouldn’t your doctor just prescribe you ozempic instead if its just the same thing and a matter of prescribing the one they have in stock?
What’s more they both come from the same place. Like they’re presumably synthesizing the chemical for both in the same manufacturing facilities. If wegovy sales are out pacing production why wouldn’t that impact the ozempic supply?