Letter Re: The Wal-Mart Discount Prescription Promotion

Jim,
I’m a Family Doctor in rural Michigan, and a Major in the Army Reserve Medical Corps, who enjoys your blog every day. A pharmacist friend, who works at WalMart just gave me their new list of $4 drugs for 30 days and $10 drugs for 90 days [sales promotion]. What a bonanza! If your friendly local doctor will do it, he can prescribe for you, drugs such as Cipro 500 MG (a great broad-spectrum antibiotic), # 90 count for $10. Or Ibuprofen 800 MG #90 count for $10, or a very wide selection of medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal conditions and other maladies, all for $10 for three months. For $100 you could have a well-stocked pharmacy of your own for tough times. I could easily treat 99% of conditions I see every day from this long list of medications. Continue the march and keep ‘yer powder dry. – FLS, D.O.