This book is for students, doctors, and indeed for all concerned with evidence-based drug therapy. A knowledge of pharmacological and therapeutic principles is essential if drugs/medicines are to be used safely and effectively for increasingly informed and critical patients. Doctors who understand how drugs get into the body, how they produce their effects, what happens to them in the body, and how evidence of their therapeutic effect is assessed, will choose drugs more skilfully, and use them more successfully than those ...
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This book is for students, doctors, and indeed for all concerned with evidence-based drug therapy. A knowledge of pharmacological and therapeutic principles is essential if drugs/medicines are to be used safely and effectively for increasingly informed and critical patients. Doctors who understand how drugs get into the body, how they produce their effects, what happens to them in the body, and how evidence of their therapeutic effect is assessed, will choose drugs more skilfully, and use them more successfully than those who do not. The principles involved are neither so numerous nor so difficult to understand as to deter any prescriber, including those whose primary interests lie elsewhere than in pharmacology. All who use drugs cannot escape either the moral or the legal 'duty of care' to prescribe in an informed and responsible way.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1800grams, ISBN: 9780443064807.
Presents the clinical pharmacology relevant for the medical student, without bogging you down with the detail probably only necessary for pharmacology students. Bigger textbooks like Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology or Rang & Dale, good though they are, do seem to have too much clinically irrelevant detail.
The explanations in this book are very lucid, and the best part is that it's written with a great sense of humour! Presenting an apparently dull and dry subject as pharmacology with humour is a very impressive achievement indeed, kudos to the authors!
Medical Pharmacology at a Glance, Pharmacology Condensed, Lecture Notes on Clinical Pharmacology or USMLE Road Map Pharmacology are all great for a quick review, but as a full clinical pharmacology text this one is probably peerless.
