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Author: Jerry Avorn
Edition: Rev Upd
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1400030781
Category: Medical

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

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. Download Powerful Medicines medical books for free.
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 Get Powerful Medicines our bestseller medical books.

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