Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #811983 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 804 pages

Review
.,."therapeutics is a field which rapidly and regularly changes...it is important to have an authoritative reference source handy. This could easily be it and with the added bonus of being highly readable, the ninth edition continues the lineage of its illustrious predecessors. An excellent addition to the bookshelf." "Dr Harry Brown," Medix-UK, May 2003
to it for interesting description of drugs, their actions, interactions, side effects and anything else required in the clinical years of a medical degree." "3rd Year Medical Student," September 2003

Customer Reviews

Excellent
Now in its ninth edition, this ever popular textbook maintains its comprehensive approach to the discussion of drugs by organ system, with emphasis on the clinical conditions in which they are used, rather than on the pharmacological classification of numerous long-redundant drugs favoured by less 'medically orientated' competitors. With a clear text structure, this book will appeal to any medical student who wishes to gain a proper grounding in the subject of medical pharmacology. Throughout, clinically relevant topics such as pharmacokinetics and drug interactions are considered for each major drug group. An especially useful feature is the numerous footnotes referring to clinical trial data, so that the text is not disrupted, but an emphasis on evidence based prescribing is maintained. An extremely useful learning and revision tool, both at undergraduate and final MB level, and, no doubt, beyond...!

Clinical Pharmacology - a medical student's perspective.
This is an excellent pharmacology text book covering all the major therapeutic topics in a pleasantly readable fashion. The book covers many areas, including drug development and the pharmacokinetic aspects of drugs that are relevant to everyday prescibing, benefiting from the input of a great number of practising doctors with their accompanying years of clinical experience. The book contains numerous amusing references, which certainly managed to stimulate my interest in what can easily become a rather dull and complicated subject. I would highly recommend this book to clinical medical students and indeed to anyone in the medical profession.

Clinical Pharmacology - a medical student's perspective.
This is an excellent pharmacology text book covering all the major therapeutic topics in a pleasantly readable fashion. The book covers many areas, including drug development and the pharmacokinetic aspects of drugs that are relevant to everyday prescibing, benefiting from the input of a great number of practising doctors with their accompanying years of clinical experience. The book contains numerous amusing references, which certainly managed to stimulate my interest in what can easily become a rather dull and complicated subject. I would highly recommend this book to clinical medical students and indeed to anyone in the medical profession.