{"id":3425,"date":"2014-07-23T02:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2014-07-23T02:47:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:47:52","slug":"does-dr-reddy-wear-a-lab-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3425","title":{"rendered":"Does Dr. Reddy wear a lab coat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Rainbow Foods located two miles away from home became a Cub Foods, which means the Rainbow Pharmacy became the Cub Pharmacy.  That in itself isn&#8217;t a big deal: the pharmacists are the same, the phone number is the same and the medications they give me are the same.  The biggest change I noticed were the new prescription labels on the bottles.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re larger, they have a few extra warnings and they also include a little more information on them.  For example, the old bottles didn&#8217;t show the name of the company that makes divalproex (the generic version of depakote, one of my medications for epilepsy).  The name of that company?  Dr. Reddy&#8217;s Lab.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s a fairly mainstream producer of prescription drugs, but when I read &#8220;Dr. Reddy&#8217;s Lab&#8221;, I think of some guy in his basement mixing ingredients together to make a variety of medications while sitting next to a bathtub filled with chemicals he uses for making meth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Rainbow Foods located two miles away from home became a Cub Foods, which means the Rainbow Pharmacy became the Cub Pharmacy. That in itself isn&#8217;t a big deal: the pharmacists are the same, the phone number is the same and the medications they give me are the same. The biggest change I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Dr. Reddy wear a lab coat?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[761],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-dr-reddys-lab"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}