10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 6 Issue 2 2015 (April - June) In our study which was done to assess the prescription pattern by the general physician for various illnesses at Avadi , Chennai showed 22 % percentage drugs were mentioned by its generic names and 78 % by their brand names. Out of all medicines used , 42 % of drug are essential drugs .Nearly 65% of antibiotics were seen in the analysed prescriptions and irrational use of multivitamins was also observed in our study DR.J .THIRUNAVUKKARSAU AND DR.V.KRISHNAN Prescription pattern, pharmacy, practioners, polypharmacy, Guidelines. 1048-1051