 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | The authoritative source of FDA-approved information on prescription drugs. The new 2009 Edition of PDR® is now here - ready to provide the vital information you need to know about all the newly approved drugs available. PDR® has been the authoritative source of FDA-approved information on prescription drugs for more than 62 years. No medical reference is more comprehensive, more current, more user-friendly, or more recognized and respected. The 2009 PDR®includes more than 3,000 drugs organized by brand and generic name, manufacturer and product category. It also provides usage information and warnings, drug interactions, plus more than 1,800 full-size, full-color photos, cross referenced to the drug. You will also find: * A key to controlled substances
* Contraindications
* Phonetic spelling
* Adverse reactions
* Dosages
* Pediatric use
* FDA use-in pregnancy ratings
* Clinical pharmacology
* Other FDA-required information And this year it's even more important to receive your new PDR®, since there are so many new treatments you'll want to learn about including: * Afluria
* Doribax
* Exforge
* Ixempra
* Kuvan
* Renvela
* Tekturna
* Xyzal For absolutely accurate information you need the 2009 PDR®! |
Average Customer Rating:   PDR 2009 i bought this book way under cost..the book was in mint condition and arrived at my door step within days of ordering it...i would recommend buying from this site to anyone strapped for cash looking for an excellent book at a bargain price! good reference The pdr was priced low and was delivered quickly. It is a great reference for checking on medicines steal of a deal! I chose to go the used route because I paid pennies on the dollar for a book that is loaded(understatement!) with info. The general condition was as per described by the seller. Not perfect, but when you pay fifteen bucks for a couple of hundred dollar book, what do you expect? Great job on all involved! JS Of Pharmacists, Medical Professionals, and Old Ghosts The late, great George Carlin once wryly observed that: "Somewhere out in America is the country's worst doctor, and tomorrow, he's going to be seeing patients." For some reason that quotation came to mind as I read some of the negative reviews of this modest little tome here on this site, complaining about the book's organization (by company, not alphabetically), and commenting on how "hard" it was to look up information for a particular drug.
Well, it IS true the book is organized that way, probably because the publishers bundle together the information as it comes in from the individual drug companies to keep the production costs way down, but is it "hard" to find information on a particular drug? Hmmmmm.
There is that "Brand and Generic Name Index" in Section 2 at the front of the book, where you can look up the specific drug you're interested in and find a) what page you can locate the the picture of it in Section 4, "Product Identification Guide" and b) what page the full description can be found in the main body of the book, Section 5. It took me at least 30 seconds to figure this out, and I was then able to start using the book fully for its intended purpose. So I would observe that it is rather disturbing to learn there are doctors and pharmacists practicing out there (or people who claim to be such, anyway), who are apparently baffled by the organization of this book, and yet they have patients trusting them to correctly sort out their maladies or mix their medications in the correct dosages. Yikes...
For my part, since I am not a medical professional, only a curious layman who has always wanted a good resource for finding out more about the medications my doctors are prescribing to me and my family, I find this book extremely useful and informative. I won't gainsay the reviews from medical professionals who say this book is missing many common drugs, does not address generics, or that there are other, better resources for the medical professional. That may well be true. But I will observe that every drug that I have ever had prescribed to me, or my wife or kids have ever had prescribed, was in there. This includes Xyzal, the relatively new allergy med my doctor just recommended for me. So I would surmise that this is likely a nearly complete, but still incomplete compendium. I can understand why this might be frustrating to a pharmacist. But that said, I'd be curious to find out if a 100% complete compendium actually exists. Is such a thing even possible?
I waited until the end of 2009, when the 2010 version had already come out, to score myself a low-cost used version, knowing that virtually all the information will still be good for years to come. It's not like the drug companies are futzing with the formulas to make Allegra or Flomax or, God help us, Viagra different every year. Come 2020 I'll probably pick up another copy, if I'm still lucky to be left half alive (as Pete Townsend might say). With this book I was able to find out everything I ever wanted to know about a particular drug - proper dosing, side effects, test results - the only leap of faith it required me to make was to assume that the drug companies are truly being forthcoming with their information and are not attempting to cover anything up the way they were, say, hiding things in that remake of "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford that came out a few years ago. Maybe they are, but when I see a copy of this book in the offices of many of my doctors, I suspect it probably is, for the most part, a reputable source of information, and I can probably dial down my cynicism and paranoia a little bit.
To summarize, I won't call this the best $30 I ever spent, but on the other hand, getting a used version at half-price at the end of the year was well worth it, at least to me. Maybe this isn't the best data source for true professionals, but for my part, it more than meets my needs. good buyer.exactly as stated, fast shipping indispensable guide for the medical field. buyer shipped quickly and answered emails fast. no complaints |  |
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