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A consumer's drug guide explains how to choose the best, most effective, and safest prescription medications and incorporates a twelve-week program for eliminating and replacing unsafe and inappropriate prescription drugs
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Gideon Bosker, M.D., is a widely published clinical scholar, educator, geriatric specialist, editor, and lecturer who holds faculty appointments at both Oregon Health Sciences University and the Yale University School of Medicine. Author of Pharmatecture: Minimizing Medications to Maximize Results, he is editor-in-chief of The Manual of Emergency Medicine Therapeutics, The Quick Consult Manual of Primary Care Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Reports®. He has presented his work to more than 1,000 hospitals and health plans countrywide. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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tury approaches, better living through pharmacology has become a way of life. Approximately two thirds of all physician visits result in a drug prescription. In 1996 alone, physicians wrote 2.8 billion prescriptions--about eight prescriptions for every person in this country. New superdrugs and forms of treatment generate front-page coverage and have become household names, but how much do we really know about these new drugs, their effectiveness, their life-prolonging properties, and their potentially deadly interactions and side effects? How can we protect ourselves and our families, enhance our quality of life, and participate in the heal-or-harm choices that determine whether our prescribed medications will help or hinder us, whether they will add years to our life or cut it short?
With these issues in clear focus, Pills That Work, Pills That Don't is the ultimate family guide to personal pharmacology and medication use. Part medical exposé, part pharmacy home companion, this rev
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0517708205
- ISBN 13 9780517708200
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages420
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