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To the Editor: The staggering number of antibiotics to choose from strains the memory. Physicians often latch onto a memorable trade name in preference to a generic name. Residents and medical students seem most likely to correlate a trade name with a generic name when the generic name is reflected in the first or second syllable of the trade name (e.g., Amikin, Amoxil, Alpen, Amcill, and Azlin). Often, another aspect of the name helps one recall the appropriate use of the drug. Unfortunately, these associations may be of no help when one is trying to remember the generic name on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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