Generic Principen is an antibiotic in the penicillin group of drugs. It is used to treat many different types of infections caused by bacteria, such as ear infections, bladder infections, pneumonia, gonorrhea, and E. coli or salmonella infection.
A MAJOR ISSUE IN WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE: HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR DOCTOR'S GENDER? (PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR)
In a phrase, it's up to you. This is an issue of highly personal preference on which no one can adequately advise you. We all know that there are good female clinicians, and bad ones—good male clinicians, and bad ones. Still, many women's health experts and advocates have a gut feeling that female physicians are better, on the whole, for female patients. Cindy Pearson of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, D.C., notes that because they share the same body and many of the same health experiences, women physicians are less likely to think about changing your body in order to cure it (that is, taking parts out or putting them on or inside of you), and adds that because women doctors are often younger, they may have been exposed to less openly sexist training in medical school and to more patient-centered, whole-person care. Dr. Marcia Angell, of the New England Journal of Medicine, says that all things being equal, she would choose a female physician because there is great inherent value in sharing the same basic life experience with your doctor.
A generic drug is made with the same active ingredients and is available in thesame strength and dosage form as the equivalent brand-name product. Generic drugs produce the same effects in the body as the brand-name drugs, because both contain the identical active ingredients...