Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach (PHARMACOTHERAPY CASEBOOK ( SCHWINGHAMMER)),   ISBN:9780071488358

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I ordered and payed for these books for a class. However, they never even came in the mail! I wanted my money back, but no refund. So I threw my money away and now I'm not ready for class.

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I was very enthusiastic about this book until it arrived. I was truly disappointed as it doesn't have suggested answers to the cases, which some of them are complex and require a background of clinical experience to be able to decide on solutions with confidence.
In countries where pharmaceutical care practice isn't yet as developed as in the West and access to full-text medical journals is not always available, this book would have been of a much greater benefit and a valuable educational tool if it had provided answers to its comprehensive clinical case studies. I wish the authors would reconsider and include answers in a following edition...

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This product looked great from the reviews. However, once received and opened, as mentioned in other reviews, there are no answers, recommendations, or even considerations given to each case. To draw an analogy, it is like having a calculus book that gives you a complex problem and says, you figure out the answer and then provides not even a method to consider for the problem or if your calculations are even on the right path.

The reader is presented with, 'Here is the problem,' but no answer. The book mentions that it is designed to be used in group discussion and students should figure out if it is correct as a group. If you don't have a PharmD around to mentor and check your solution, you are out of luck and will gain no learning value from it as someone looking to learn pharmacotherapy using cases as the basis.

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I purchased this item along with the Pharmacotherapy text book. It provides a number of scenarios for each chapter. The first scenario is relatively easy, the second is pretty tough to work through. The negative part of this is that it doesn't tell you the answers to the cases, nor the best way to go about getting to the answer. It does show you that everything isn't a text book case. Some of the cases are very random, just like patients are going to be. I guess it provides a real life lesson, sometimes there is no best answer and the true judgement is in the eyes of the practitioner. Nevertheless, I still gave it an ok rating because I'm trying to learn the material and this is just a bunch of scenarios with no answers.

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I want to say I received the book within a week from ordering it, I don't remember exactly, but it was quicker than other books I have ordered from other sellers. It came in brand new, wrapped in plastic, along with the textbook. Good service!