Book Reviews: Scientific Basis of Clinical Pharmacology.. R. D. Spector. Little Brown, Boston, 1986

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 418-418
Author(s):  
R.M. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Pharmacology ◽  
Scientific Basis

Principles of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy

2010 ◽  
pp. 1449-1476
Author(s):  
Kevin O’Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Pharmacology ◽  
Drug Therapy ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Rational Prescribing

The role of clinical pharmacology is to provide the scientific basis for rational prescribing: ‘patients may recover in spite of drugs … or because of them’ (Gaddum). This sums up the dilemma facing any doctor who prescribes a drug to a patient: it should certainly be the doctor’s explicit intention to do the patient some good, but the drug may actually harm the patient, and on rare occasions it can even kill them....

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