Abstract
To Editor. —In medical school, students learn nearly everything about a drug except its price. Since rational prescribing should take costs into account, drug prices should be presented just as side effects are, but satisfactory sources of price information are not available. A new fourth-year course in clinical pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College includes completion of a personal formulary for 20 commonly prescribed drugs adapted from a program at University of Extremadura Medical School. 1 In addition to pharmacological effects, cost is requested on these drug information sheets. Carrying out formulary exercise, we found that all of information requested in personal formulary except drug prices was obtained easily using standard references. The medical library's reference section did not contain any obvious source for price information. A hospital pharmacist suggested the blue book, American Druggist First Databank Annual Directory of Pharmaceuticals , a
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