TY  - JOUR
T1  - J-drugs-reply
AU  - Smith DB
Y1  - 1989/05/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03420200042017
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2952
EP  - 2952
VL  - 261
IS  - 20
N2  - In Reply. — 
    Although it makes no claim to completeness, the Physicians' Desk Reference does serve as a kind of pharmaceutical "who's who." The absence of a Jname, generic or proprietary, among the more than 2000 products in the 1988 edition spawned several explanatory theories.Personally, I thought it was an aversion on the part of American medicine to words that might be even remotely juridical. J is just too prominent in "judge," "jury," and "jurisprudence."Dr Fogel's kind offer to trade drugs for Caribbean real estate might not be necessary. The 1989 Physicians' Desk Reference lists both Janimine and Jevity. This is probably all the J-drugs a country needs, but I suspect we could handle more if our Canadian colleagues would like to trade J-drugs for JDs.
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420200042017
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420200042017
ER  -