what will you do if you want to buy good quality medicin in affordable prices. why?
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Before you rush to purchase the medicine prescribed by your doctor, check with him if low-price variants are available. You can save nearly 90% on your bill.
How often have you questioned the medicine prescribed by your doctor? Or challenged the cost of the medicine? In all probability, never. The blind faith in the physician, compounded by the patient’s ignorance, makes for a potent combination. Often, this is the prescription for fuelling your medical bills. This need not be the case as there are ways to cut your medical bill by nearly 90% in some cases (see table).
The question this begs is, why do we pay such heavy bills? The logic is easy enough to understand. You pay for a medicine that has been prescribed by your doctor, who, in turn, is wooed by several drug manufacturers to buy their brands. The medicine he picks is the one he prescribes to you. The costlier the drug, the bigger your bill.
Why do some medicines cost more than the others?
Saroj Shah, a Mumbai-based housewife, was asked by the doctor to purchase an antacid, Entac, which cost her Rs 67 for a pack of 10 tablets. However, she could have bought another medicine, Lantac, which would have worked just as well for as little as Rs 3.60 for the same number of tablets. The price difference—Rs 63.4 or an incredible 94.6%. Can one actually buy drugs that are as cheap but equally effective? If so, how does one explain the price difference? Here are some of the reasons why there is a wide variation in the drug prices:
Branded vs generic drugs: A branded drug is one which has been developed by a particular company after a lot of research and development. Hence, it is protected by patent laws and is marketed under the manufacturer’s name. However, once the patent period expires, other drug manufacturers jump into the fray, increasing the competition and lowering the prices.
This is because these companies do not incur the cost of testing and developing the medicine from scratch, only that of production. Such medicines are called generics or generic drugs. They have the same active ingredients as the original medicine, identical dosage, strength and efficacy as well as the manner of administration, but are sold under the chemical name instead of the manufacturer’s name. As Dr Deepak Ugra, head of department, paediatrics, Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, says, “The cost depends on whether the original molecule was developed by the company after research because, in this case, it will want to recover the cost of research and development.”
Big brands vs small player: The cost of the medicine can also depend on whether it has been produced by a big player or a small, local manufacturer. The bigger manufacturer will factor in the cost of marketing and advertising and, hence, the medicine will cost more. On the other hand, smaller players who do not incur such costs can afford to sell their drugs at much lower prices. Similar is the case with medicines that are manufactured and packed abroad and sold in India, which are more expensive, compared with those that are developed abroad, but are packed and sold in India. For the same reason, imported medicines come at a higher price.
Price control: There’s another reason that the cost of drugs varies. “Medicines can be categorised into two types: the ones whose prices are controlled by the government, and those whose prices are not. So the companies are free to fix the prices of non-controlled drugs without any restriction,” says Dr Chandra M Gulhati, editor of the Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMS), a pharmaceutical reference journal.
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Teaching can without any doubts be called the leading power of the society’s development. It is well known that there exist three main factors that influence the development of the personality. They are: heredity, social encirclement and education. Usually the term education is used meaning the great impact that parent have on the future personality of their child. But this also includes school education, because nowadays, when parents are very busy they are the people, who teach children what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is right and what is wrong. Through them children learn to perceive the inner world. And the way they perceive it depends on the teacher’s personal particularities that are transmitted to children through interaction and the knowledge that the teacher offers them. A good teacher is a person who finds individual approach to every pupil, taking care about the child’s adaptation in class, increasing one’s social status in class and making sure the children learn to take into account and respect the thoughts of other people.
Therefore there is much more to a teacher than high professionalism. What makes kids hardly wait until the lesson starts in one cases and hating the subject in others? Of course high professionalism in the field of the taught subject is very important, but when it comes to being a bad or a good teacher this is not the weightiest factor. A good teacher is a person who not just reproduces the knowledge he got. Not a person that only brings up the interest to the subject. It is a person who finds individual approach to every pupil, taking care about the child’s adaptation in class, increasing one’s social status in class and making sure the children learn to take into account and respect the thoughts of other people. It is a man or a woman that can not “play” the teacher’s role but he in the first place “ a feeling human being” in front of the students, a person that can show emotional response. For example, if the teacher is professionally good enough but does not take critics from the pupils constructively or does not explain why he thinks he is right this makes a huge gap between the students and the teacher. And when there is no emotional contact the learning cannot be called successful, for the students are not completely involved. When the teacher does not treat students as people that obey him, treats them like they are equal to him and explains equally to everybody it can really be a pointer of a “good” teacher. And one other very important thing is creativity.
One of the indicators of a “good” teacher it is his desire to teach in a new, original form, adding something new and personal to make the learning process as exciting as it can possibly be. A bad teacher is a person that focuses only on the information he provides not taking into account the children or anything. It is a person that is doing its job. Such a person can be very good in the theoretical part of his subject but he will never have students being emotionally attached to him. It is a teacher that lets his personal mood influence on the way he treats his students, ect. That cannot reduce awkward situations with humor either it is him in the situation or his student. Being a good teacher is about loving children and wanting to give them only the best the teacher has inside of him.