Practical Standard Prescriber
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This title is the last contribution of Late Dr LC Gupta to the medical literature, whose tireless efforts made the completion of this book possible and will keep his memories alive in our hearts.
Practical Standard Prescriber
Ninth Edition
Late LC Gupta MD FAMS DSc (Hon)
Kusum Gupta PhD (Hon)
Abhitabh Gupta MD DMRE
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Practical Standard Prescriber
First Edition: 1984
Sixth Edition: 2001
Reprint: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
Seventh Edition: 2009
Pharmaceutical Reprint Edition: 2010
Eighth Edition: 2013
Ninth Edition: 2016
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- Abhishek Gupta MD DRM DNB MNAMSDIFI Center, New Delhi, India
- Jawahar Jain MBBS MBA DSc (Hon)Delhi University, New Delhi, India
- Lakhpat Lodha MDMedical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
- PK Pande MDLNPPI, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Parul Gupta MBBSJhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Preeti Gupta MBBS DGOGwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Priya Verma MDSNew Delhi, India
- Puneet Rastogi MD DMMedical College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Sekhar Jaiswal MBBSSrinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Sheevi Rastogi MBBS DGOGwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Sujata MS MCh DNBSafdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
- Vandna Mangal MDMedical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
With the ever-growing popularity and demands of the target readers, comprising of students, registrars and general practitioners, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. New Delhi is honored to publish the 9th edition of the book Practical Standard Prescriber. This book has been thoroughly revised and updated, especially treatment segment which has been formatted in a much reader-friendly way with the hope to provide a better understanding and knowledge of the subject.
Late LC Gupta
Kusum Gupta
Abhitabh Gupta
Preface to the First Edition
The drug world is expanding at a very fast pace. New drugs are continuously being added and obsolete ones are withdrawn. Age-old regimens which once enjoyed mass acceptance and reputation are being replaced with newer concepts. A busy practitioner or a new incumbent to the profession should keep himself abreast of these developments and reorient himself to the changing circumstances. Drug resistance is frequently being encountered and is the main cause of treatment failure. In this small work, attempt has been made to enumerate the standard drugs to be prescribed for a particular disease. In case of intolerance or drugs resistance, alternative regimens are also inserted. However, the choice of drugs depends upon the treating physician. Over-prescription is certainly to be avoided and drug abuse is to be kept at minimum.
Doctor shopping is a common feature of the present time. Readymade prescription is available across the counter from mini modified doctors and there is no need to present the patient before the doctor. Such a trend is certainly hazardous.
Correct dosage, duration of therapy, contraindications, adverse reactions, drug interactions, side effects and toxicity should be kept in mind while writing a prescription. The economic status of the patient and his occupation should be given due consideration. Ailments which are otherwise innocuous and self-limiting should be handled tactfully. For reaching at a correct diagnosis, the cardinal symptoms, signs, pathologic and laboratory findings are also incorporated in this book. However, correct diagnosis is left to ingenuity of the prescriber.
In a developing country, where many people are below poverty line with high illiteracy rate, one may find it extremely difficult to afford costly medicines for miraculous cure or discriminate between safe and dangerous drugs. They completely depend upon the prescriber who may be a doctor, a quack or a friend. Under such circumstances, the cheap, effective and harmless medicines are to be tried first rather than jumping to the newer and less known products.
Aggressive marketing and unabated advertising through mass media by some drug manufacturers, creates confusion and dilemma in the minds of innocent consumers. Some products without a rational basis become the household remedy and every home possess them. Such practice is certainly detrimental to the ethics of medical profession.
LC Gupta