OTC Guide App Reviews

This app is a waste of space. Its simply a list of OTC categories, and when you click on one of the category choices, such as "cold sore remedies"...you get a pie chart indicating the apparent popularity of one OTC treatment over the others. But even that is my best guess as there is really no explanation to these endless, useless pie charts. I thought I was getting actual guidance on OTC products and their uses. There is a random panel of clinical information on the left panel of the screen but its completely random info, not anything searchable.

This app is completely useless. It does not even list the ingredients in common preparations. It just gives a pie graph of what sells the most and a brief write up on the side that talks about the disease state. The write up is so elementary that it is as useless as the pie graph. This is one of the worst excuses for a pharmacy app I have ever seen and they should be ashamed of themselves for marketing it to pharmacists.

So, assuming that this app is targeted at the retail pharmacist allows us to make certain assumptions about the knowledge base of the end user. Only such arrogance would allow for the extremely terse presentation of the various products involved in the treatment of a given disease state. Write-up of the disease state is nice, albeit cursory, and the treatment of the meds is a pie chart. In 2-D. And exactly what is the AWP of a pixel? <strike, retract sarcasm>. It is barely adequate for the professional to know the opinions of his/her peers, primarily because of the autonomy involved with professional judgement. If I am going to make a recommendation, I require the science, not what Belinda is doing at Townsend Drug, down the street (shout outs in reviews...goodness...no wonder were losing ESI:). Drug reps cant give us pens anymore because our precious judgement might be clouded by a logo, that is obscured when Im writing, BTW, and yknow, osmotic learning never really worked for me...keep buying those clinics lunches, and make sure you keep the crap coming... I had to beg a Fentora bag off my PCPs receptionist...sad times, indeed... Anyway, back on track. I find this app mighty stingy with the content. It is well designed, and attractive. But the simple fact that, upon initial execution of the app, right after the splash screen, I am hit with a full page advert for Carmex, that I must swipe thru in order to access content. Pardon, did you not just charge me for that app? I already didnt recommend Carmex, if youll pardon the grammatical carnage, gonna be a cold day in hell before that happens... Law of unexpected consequence much? My opinions are my own, and I take satisfaction from that. Dont let the smock fool you...

A Good review, hope to see more updates soon