Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.
Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.
Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.
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New York : Knopf, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N338.43615/ 3
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English
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viii, 448 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue : different strokes -- Pt. 1. Benefits -- 1. The pregnant mare's lesson -- 2. Leaving the Dark Ages behind, mostly -- Pt. 2. Risks -- 3. The fat is in the fire -- 4. Too sweet to be true -- 5. Cold comfort -- 6. Getting risks right -- 7. The most vulnerable patients -- 8. Enter doctor faust...
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New York : Knopf, 2004.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry's own marketing technique...
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Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N338.43615/ 3
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74VKwR8rwv5O
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0375414835
9780375414831
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338.4361510973
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991018328159702626
