Powerful Medicines

Author: Jerry Md Avorn
Edition: Rev Upd
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001NJMBG8
Category: Medical

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

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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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