Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: Rev Upd
Release: 2005-08-09
Publisher: Vintage
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1400030781
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Powerful Medicines pdf
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If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced.

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