Are Your Meds Making You Sick?: A Pharmacist's Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions, and Side-Effects
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. As the U.S. population ages and there is a steady increase in the number of prescribed and OTC medications and alternative remedies, this book will only become more important. When pharmacist Robert Gold's father began suffering side effects from medication, he realized most people don't have the experience and knowledge to identify adverse drug reactions or common drug-induced illness. Are Your Meds Making You Sick? A Pharmacist's Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions and Side-Effects is a highly accessible tool formatted for quick reference that any layperson can use to protect themselves and their loved ones against adverse drug interactions, reactions, and harmful--even lethal--side-effects.
Gold starts with Sixteen Rules for Safe Medication Use--this alone is worth the price of admission--explaining that these simple rules can not only protect us against dangerous medications or drug combinations, but also help us to optimize medications' therapeutic effect.
No other book on the market offers the scope and clarity of Are Your Meds Making You Sick? A Pharmacist's Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions and Side-Effects. By learning to think like a clinical hospital pharmacist we become aware of the common signs and symptoms of drug-induced illness and how to avoid it.
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. As the U.S. population ages and there is a steady increase in the number of prescribed and OTC medications and alternative remedies, this book will only become more important.
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Book details
- Author
- Robert Gold
- Imprint
- Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Reference
- Topics
- medication side effects · prescription drugs · drug safety · pharmacology · over-the-counter medications · patient health reference
- ISBN-13
- 9780897935708 (Paperback)9781630266646 (Hardcover)
About the author
ROBERT S. GOLD is a pharmacist specializing in adverse drug reactions with more than 25 years of hospital practice. He is the author of Are Your Meds Making You Sick?: A Pharmacist’s Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Drug Interactions, Reactions, and Side-Effects.
Gold holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Ball State University. He has worked as a pharmacy director, supervisor, and staff pharmacist, and serves as an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Purdue University.
When he’s not writing, Gold practices hospital pharmacy and teaches future pharmacists. His work in adverse drug reactions informs the practical, patient-focused guidance at the heart of his book.