Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple 5th Edition

Fun explanations and succinct teaching blurbs make this an invaluable tool for any NP student!

This is a great book, but it has a somewhat deceptive title. Honestly, I don't think pharmacology can be made ridiculously simple under any conditions. I remember when I was a first year college student and my boyfriend at the time was a third year pharmacy student. I picked up some of his textbooks and began leafing through them, and for all I understood, they could have been written in ancient Greek. Today, I'm studying Advanced Biosciences, so I understand pharmacology a lot better, but it's still not a simple subject.This book, however, has been written in the simplest language possible, and it begins by explaining the principles of pharmacology, which helps a lot. After one has mastered that, and there is a lot more to it than simply alleviating pain or curing an illness, the author moves on to the drugs applicable for the different systems of the body, e.g., the cardiovascular system, the digestive system, the reproductive system, etc. We also learn much about anti-cancer drugs. We learn how drugs are administered, what dosage is appropriate, and what to give when.Even though there really is no way to make pharmacology simple (unless, of course, one compares it to cell biology), I believe this book does the best job possible. It is easy and very interesting to read, even if one isn't studying for an Advanced Biosciences degree as I am. All-in-all, I love this series of books, ridiculously simple or not. They make a great addition to my basic textbooks, and they do help to make clear the more ambiguous principles of clinical pharmacology. I highly recommend this book to anyone studying clinical pharmacology, and especially to anyone who is struggling with it.

The book had a select few tips and tricks that I hadn’t heard in the past but so few images. Kind of disappointed.

Easy to read and understand

Love it~

I was looking for a book to review basic pharmacology especially on medications I do not commonly use. I did not want to read the standard tome from medical school. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Definitely covers the basics in a very simple style with nice tables and graphs. An easy read. Price made it a bargain. The knowledge invaluable. Rate: B+

I used this to study pharmacology in my APRN program. Better than the textbook that was required. I also purchased psychopharmacology and pathophysiology from their series and they are all well-written in a perfect style to study.

I was looking for a detailed text .The book is beautiful , clear , with great tables . It seems very useful for a beginner's course in pharmacology . I am 72 and after 47 years of practice , I had detailed specific questions that were beyond the goal of this book .