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The nonpharmacologic basis of therapeutics
Author(s) -
Mazzullo John
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt1972132157
Subject(s) - pill , reserpine , white (mutation) , medicine , phenobarbital , regimen , pharmacology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Every physician who has contact with outpatients has on occasion had his grandest therapeutic regimen hopelessly confounded by a patient's bewilderment over which little white pill comes next. Every physician has also experienced the frustration of trying to extract from a new patient information on what pills he has been taking: "I have been taking a little white pill for nerves and pressure." (phenobarbital, hydrochlorthiazide, or reserpine?)