Minor Illness or Major Disease?: The Clinical Pharmacist in the Community

Description: Diagnosing and treating minor ailments has become widely recognised as being an important part of the pharmacy profession. "Minor Illness or Major Disease?" is a clear, concise guide to the disease symptoms frequently encountered in community practice, and can be used to aid the pharmacist in making a rational diagnosis of illness and a recommendation for treatment or referral. This new edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changing nature of community pharmacy practice with respect to responding to symptoms. Updates include details of new prescription only medicines being deregulated to pharmacy medicine status, advice on commonly used herbal OTC medicines such as Echinacea, St John's wort, and glucosamine, evidence for use of OTC medicines, and even more helpful illustrations. It offers key further reading and updated case studies presented in a Q and A format accompany each chapter.

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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Subject Area: disease

Series: 4th edition

Educational Level: Adult & Further Education

Features: 4th edition

Unit Type: Unit

Level: Technical

Item Weight: 849g

Item Height: 246mm

Item Width: 189mm

Author: Dr Clive Edwards, Dr Paul Stillman

Publication Name: Minor Illness or Major Disease?: the Clinical Pharmacist in the Community

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press

Subject: Medicine

Publication Year: 2006

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 288 Pages