Saturday, November 25, 2006

Pharmacology

Organs block has a considerable amount of pharmacology. It's tough. We have to familiarize ourselves with drugs, many of which have random names (except the beta blockers). We have to know their indications, their contraindications, their mechanism of action, their duration of action, and their side-effects. It's a lot of memorization. It's not unimportant since we need to know these drugs at some point, but it's not easy as we haven't been immersed in clinical practice. I trust that in time, knowing the drugs will become very useful and rattling off their dosages will become second nature.

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