Pharmacotherapy myth busters

Theory is not necessarily reality. And just because you hear it three times doesn’t make it true.

When medicines are new we are understandably and suitably very cautious and there are theoretical issues that arise – such as interactions and adverse effects that we need to be wary of. Over time evidence changes and what we thought might occur, doesn’t eventuate – or we do a U-turn. An example being when we would not use a b-blocker for someone with heart failure in 1994, but by 1998, we were poor clinicians if we didn’t.

This session discusses some of the recent myths that have arise about medicines therapy – interactions, dosing, monitoring.