A patient asks the nurse when a brand-name medication that the patient is taking will be available as a generic. The nurse correctly responds that a drug can be manufactured, sold, and prescribed as a generic drug approximately ____ after it was patented
1. 3 years.
2. 5 years.
3. 10 years.
4. 15 years.
ANS: 3
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