Are Your Meds Making You Sick?: A Pharmacist's Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions, and Side-Effects

by Robert S. Gold

Overview

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.

Are Your Meds Making You Sick? A Pharmacist's Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions and Side-Effects is highly accessible and formatted for quick reference by any layperson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897935777
Publisher:	Hunter House, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	854 KB

About the Author

Robert S. Gold: Robert Gold R.Ph., MBA, has been a practicing hospital pharmacist for over twenty-seven years at a large midwestern hospital and is an affiliate instructor of clinical pharmacy at Purdue University. When he started noticing recurring problems with several common medications, he began collecting the data which became the basis for his book titled Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions.

Editorial Reviews

Considering 34 medications, Gold, a hospital pharmacist for over 27 years, details 30 potential combinations for dangerous drug interactions. After witnessing countless instances of ill health that resulted from drug interactions, Gold—backed by FDA statistics—wants to help patients become more informed and empowered with their medicine. He details a series of minimysteries, each like an episode of House; readers begin with details of patients' health problems, along with information about their medications, supplements, and lifestyle choices, and finish with an explanation of which element is the culprit. A helpful appendix makes it easy to find applicable medications, without which this book would be difficult to navigate, as it is divided into chapters focusing on parts of the body. VERDICT Not organized as a list like most drug-interaction books, this title's format illustrates how many different factors can physically affect an individual and spotlights what to watch for. A good book to have alongside the usual drug-interaction volumes.—Elizabeth J. Eastwood, Los Alamos Cty. Lib. Syst., NM

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