Are Your Meds Making You Sick?
Author | : Robert S. Gold |
Publisher | : Hunter House |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780897935708 |
ISBN-13 | : 0897935705 |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "In Are Your Meds making You Sick? author Robert S. Gold, RPh, MBA, a clinical hospital pharmacist and affiliate instructor of clinical pharmacy at Purdue University with over 27 years of experience, shows the reader how to think like a clinical hospital pharmacist. He lists his 16 Rules of Safe Medication Use that, if followed, can help prevent the common problems that medications can cause; gives specific examples and scenarios featuring the thirty-six drugs that are the most common offenders; and explains how even seemingly good drugs can harm a patient's kidney, liver, brain and heart if the patient's medical history and physical vulnerabilities are not taken into account"--