Doctors frequently come across a number of adverse drug reactions in their
day-to-day practice. It is desirable that prescribers and consumers of medicines
are appropriately informed about adverse drug reactions for safe and effective
use of drugs. A doctor, who understand, how and why adverse drug reactions
occur, will select drugs more skillfully and can avoid a number of mishappenings
in medicine. For all those who care for their patients, a very interesting
aspect of this book is on recording and reporting adverse drug reactions. Apart
from this, the book represents important information on drug induced
emergencies, adverse effects of self-medication, recent drug withdrawals, new
adverse drug reactions