Physicians Desk Reference - with caveats.

Started by TACAIR, April 13, 2024, 11:28:45 AM

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This is available for download at -  Physicians Desk Reference | PDF | Food And Drug Administration | Pharmaceutical Drug (scribd.com)   this is a subscription site!


However, you should know this publication was terminated in 2017.  PDR is now digital only, good and bad.  The data is also freely available. 


Here's why I posted a subscription site
"The Physicians' Desk Reference is a venerable US institution. For decades, US physicians would receive each year, gratis, a heavy volume containing the prescribing information for branded medications in current use. A model of convenience, it was a simple matter to look up approved indications, dosing recommendations, warnings and precautions, etc., rather than search through the bits of paper packaged with each product. Also included was a set of pages of photographs of the most popular tablets and capsules, aiding in their identification. Similar resources have been available in other countries.
All this has been rendered obsolete by the Internet. It is now far easier to look up in https://www.google.com/ (this process is now called "googling") the name of the medicine in question, brand name or generic, misspelt or not, and the initials or words "PI" (for prescribing information) or "SPC" for (summary of product characteristics). When identifying pills, it is easy to search for "capsule" or "tablet" and indicate the colour(s) and the number and letter markings on the pill—within seconds you will find a match."


Source and more at:
( Goodbye Physicians' Desk Reference, hello Prescribers' Digital Reference! - Citrome - 2017 - International Journal of Clinical Practice - Wiley Online Library)
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My suggestion is to - NOW WHILE YOU CAN - pull up any drug you are currently using or may use or have in the stack, then print out the related data.
You know, in case the "Internet Kill Switch" is ever pulled.
I'd much rather be a disappointed pessimist than a horrified optimist....

Sorry guys - closed my Amazon account and am out of the fiction biz.

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