Friday, May 5, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Doctors, druggists dispute drug law merit
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Writer
A law passed last week by the Kansas Legislature was designed to lower the prices of gasoline.
Local physicians and pharmacists,
need disagree about whether consumer
savings will increase.
The law, which will take effect July 1, is known as the brand-exchange law. It sometimes will permit pharmacists to substitute lower-priced brands of a drug for the brand names prescribed by the physician.
For example, a physician might write the brand name Valium on the prescription instead of diazepam, the generic term for the drug. Under this law, the pharmacist could then dispense a cheaper brand of diazenem, saving the patient money.
Gene Martin, chairman of pharmacy
practice, said that the concept of brand-exchange was based on the thought that every brand of a particular drug was equally effective.
THE KANASM Medical Society disagrees with that thought.
Jerry Slaughter, executive director of the Society, said that there was evidence that two brands of a drug might not have the same effect.
The fact that two drugs are chemically the same does not insure that they will act the same biologically, Slaughter said. The rate of absorption of the drug may differ from one patient to another, the different materials pharmaceutical companies use to bind the drug into tablet form.
"One brand may be better than another." Shaughter said. "We don't feel the issue has been solved."
The brand-exchange law contains a
Slaughter that all butchard 30 states now had brand exchange laws, he has not seen them. Mr. McCormick said.
provision allowing a physician to refuse substitutions for his prescriptions. In that case, the pharmacist must dispense the specified brand.
MARTIN WOLLMANN, director of Health Services at the University of Kansas, said he favored the brand-exchange law because many medicines less expensive than well-known brands were equally effective.
Wollmann said he thought standards should be established concerning the biological equivalency of different brands of a chemically equivalent drug.
The law will have no effect on Watkin's pharmaceutical practices. Watkins purges drug discharge through a state agency.
does not carry a wide variety of brands of the same drug.
Stan Stevens, pharmacist for the Medical Arts Pharmacy, 4th and Maine streets, said he thought the law would, at best, save the patient a few cents on a prescription.
"I'm not against saving the patient money," Stevens said. "But I don't believe the law is totally to the benefit of the patient or the pharmacist."
"It will put more liability on the pharmacist to谋 if the cheaper drug is the better one."
STEVENS SAID he thought cheapen brands of a drug might not have the same therapeutic action. He also worried about the new麻醉医师 would face as a result of the law.
An argument used by proponents of the law when it was being considered by the legislature was that pharmacies could reduce the number of brand names in their
Poll indicates Carter's rating down
NEW YORK (AP) - Americans think President Jimmy Carter is an honest, hardworking man, but they don't think he has gotten much done as president.
That's the finding of the latest Associated Press-NBC News poll, taken this week.
Moreover, Carter's job rating has plummeted once again. American's judgment of his performance is at levels among recent occupants of the Oval Office.
Only 29 percent of those questioned said Carter had done a good or excellent job in
office, compared with 69 percent who rated his work as fair or poor. Two percent were undecided in the telephone interviews conducted Monday and Tuesday.
THAT RATING IS 5 down four points since the last AP-NBC News poll in March.
A question similar to the AP-NBC News wording has been asked in recent years by pollster Louis Harris. The current AP-NBC News rating on Carter is lower than the lowest Harris points on either Lyndon Johnson or Gerald Ford. Only尼克 S1-78 has
negating rating in March 1974 is lower than Carter's current rating.
The poll was taken before the last government released its latest finding of a major jump in wholesale prices and before the fall in his fence-mounted tour to Western states.
AND THESE declines came despite Carter's first major foreign policy victory—Senate approval of the Panama Canal treaties—and despite settlement of the coal strike and announcement of his anti-inflation program.
About 80 percent of the 1,000 adults interviewed agreed with statements that Carter was honest and that he was hard-working. And 14 percent disagreed with either statement.
But 63 percent disagreed with the statement: "As president, Jimmy Carter has shown that he can be things done." He added, "In all 12 years of the statement and 6 percent were undecided.
Summer, fall Kansan staffs filled
The summer and fall Kansan staffs were chosen this week by Kevin Kious and Steve Frazier, summer and fall editors, and Jeff Hook, summer and fall manager, summer and fall business managers.
FIGHTING INFLATION was one major area where the poll found public sentiment
The summer news-editorial staff chosen by Kevin Kious, Overland Park senior, comprizes Bob Beer, Larned senior, campus editor; Kerry Barsotti, Leawood sophomore; associate campus editor; Mary-Amy Fischbauer and Lori Bergmann, Perry seni- and Mary Mitchell, Tupelo, Miss., graduate student, copy chiefs.
Although about two-thirds of the people say that a president has the power to deal with inflation, only about a quarter of those interviewed said Carter was doing enough to fight inflation, only about a quarter of those interviewed said Carter was doing enough to control inflation and 80 percent said he was not doing enough. Eight percent were undecided.
Frazier, McPherson senior, chose Jerry
Pitts, "Titford's best student," as his
prior classmate in the fall of 1954.
Patricia Lewis, Kansas City, Kan., junior will be the summer photo editor. Photographers will be Suzanne Burdick, Lawrence junior, and Alan Zlotky, Lawrence junior. Lewis, Burdick and Zlotky will photographers on the fall Kansan staff.
BARRY MASEY, Humboldt senior, will be editorial editor; Dan Bowerman, Olathe senor, campus editor; Mary Hoewk, Iowa senor, college president; Melissa Thompson, Wichita junior magazine editor; Olivar, associate magazine editor; Leon Unruh, Pawnee Rock junior, sports editor; and Nancy Dressler, Kingman junior, associate sports editor.
Assistant camp editor will be Brian Settle, Kansas city, Kan., junior, and Pam Manson, Overland Park, junior. Copy chiefs will be Laurie Daniel, Shawnee Mission junior; Carol Hunter, Parsons junior; and Paula Southerland, Teoakuma junior.
Make-up editors will be Southerland, Mary Marthenburch, Overland Park junior; Allen Holder, Kansas City, Kan.; junior; and Pam Ekey, Hays Junior. Wire editors will be Eekey Lajoine, Stonehouse, Prairieville Lawyer, Ladee Champin, Lawrence graduate student.
EDITORIAL WRITERS will be Holder;
John Whiteside, Lawrence minor; Dick Steimel, Wright junior; and Walt Braun, Lawrence senor. Beer and John Tharp, Toneka sohomore, will be staff writers.
Randy David, St. Louis senior, will be photo editor, Olson Millever, Overland Park sophomore, will be editorial cartoonist. Staff artists will be Linda Word, Overland Park junior, and Milton Gray, Junction City sophomore.
Jeff Kisson, Overland Park senior, chose a summer business staff consisting of Greg Munzer, Topeka junior, assistant business manager; Kelly Long, Prairie Village manager; Jeff Kinney, Sportsman, Shawne Mission senior, promotional manager; Kevin Hoppe, Lawrence senior, associate promotional manager; Nick Hadley, Stanley senior, classified manager; Bob Hart, Kansas senior, photographer, and Word, staff artist.
GREEN, ABILEN junior, chose JEF
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kailas' baggage handler.
Karen Wendertt, Alma junior, will be associate business manager; Bret Miller, Prairie Village junior, assistant business manager; Muzen, promoters and national advertising manager; Hadley, classifies managers; and Hart, staff photographer.
Assistant promotions managers will be Allen Blair, topeka senior. Melanie Smith.
People's trust in Carter to do what's right also has sunk in the last four months. Only 40 percent now say they trust Carter to do the right thing at least most of the time.
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"The law shouldn't make any significant difference to me," Cox said. "It should be translated into savings to the consumer, though."
favored the bill but said its effect would be small because most physicians already use it.
inventories and sell their supplies more quickly.
Stevens said that he could not foresee that happening because most pharmacies carry almost all the drugs.
Randolph Cox, a pharmacist at Super-X drug store on 23rd Street, agreed.
Egypt encourages unity cooperation in negotiations
CAIRO (UIP) — Egypt yesterday called for Arab solidarity to confront Israel but warned hardline regimes opposed to it would need an urgent and assertive against any idea of settling old scores.
The present stage should not be one of settling old scores," the radio said.
In a commentary on Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri's visit to Egypt at the start of an Arab fence-mending tour, the official Cairo Radio said only Arab unity could alter Israel's negotiating stand on a Middle East settlement.
Officials emphasized that the radio was speaking in political terms and not calling for mobilization to launch a war against Israel.
"ESSENTIALLY IT IS should be one of marshaling up an Arab strength once more to confront Israel's flagrantly defiant attitude in the Middle East on behalf of the Arab world," it said.
The commentary was broadcast as Sadat and Nurumey held their second round of talks in the Mediterranean city of Tripoli on Friday, following a reconciliation between Egypt and opponents
of its peace moves—Syria, Libya, Algeria,
Iraq and South Yemen.
THE SUDANESE president will fly to
Sudan with similar talks with
Burmese President Aung San Suu-
kha.
Following the meeting, Numeira said the split was over methods, not objectives, and predicted a summit of Arab chiefs-of-state held soon, possibly within two months.
"After my talks with President Sadat, I feel that Arabs agree about objectives and their differences are merely confined to the material, realizing these objectives." Numeirie said.
"But differences about methods should not lead to an inter-Arab breach. To the contrary, they should result in intensified Arab contacts at all levels," he said.
Nuremye is concentrating first on restoring diplomatic relations that Egypt broke off with the five hardline states last December after they denounced his November peace mission to Jerusalem as treason.
He also is seeking an end to propaganda warfare between the two sides.
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