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What Is Wrong With Generic Drugs?

Photo by Laurynas Mereckas on Unsplash The other day I went to my General Practitioner for a routine checkup. There was a man complaining about the different reactions in his body after changing regular branded medicine with a generic one. Being a healthcare industry professional, I was curious to know more about him and the reactions inside his body. So, I contacted my GP and asked him whether it is natural to have some adverse reaction after switching from branded to generic versions of drugs? The answer was yes. He showed me a series of complaints from different patients across the world on generic drugs. Some of them either didn’t work on patients or led to some devastating side effects. After an hour-long conversation with my GP, I realized that something is wrong with these Generic Drugs, but the question is what? What is wrong with generic drugs? Why is it causing such reactions in our bodies? So, I decided to dig more into generic drugs. I mined hundreds of reports related to g...