Dear Health-Conscious Consumer:
We admit it. There are some people who don’t need The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs. You don’t need it if:
- You never take prescription or over-the-counter medication. Ever.
- You have an extensive consultation with your personal pharmacist every time you buy an over-the-counter drug.
- Your doctor personally accompanies you to the store each time you get a prescription filled.
- Your various physicians speak with each other regularly to discuss your medications.
But if none of these descriptions applies to you, then read this letter as if your life depended on it. Because indeed it might.
Medical care has never been better. But there certainly is a lot of it.
A lot of doctors. A lot of prescriptions. A lot of confusion.
The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs is an antidote to the confusion that can surround the taking of prescription and over-the-counter medications.
A comprehensive guide to 700 generic and 2,300 brand-name prescription and over-the-counter drugs, this must-own home medical reference is, at 864 pages, as comprehensive as it is accessible, and as exhaustive as it is concise.
In considering this absolutely risk-free offer, ask yourself these questions:
- Does your heart doctor know what your eye doctor prescribed?
- Does your blood-pressure drug know what your anti-ulcer medication is doing?
- Does your internist talk to your gastroenterologist? About you?
- Do you phone your doctor every time you take a cold remedy? Or an aspirin?
- Do you talk to your pharmacist? Do you even know your pharmacist?
- Do you carefully read the tiny fine print on package inserts to check for drug interactions?
- Do you automatically assume that if it’s an over-the-counter drug, then it’s safe for you to take?
We don’t mean to be alarmist. But taking medication these days—any medication—involves taking responsibility.
Let me tell you about a friend of mine—a woman in her 50s.
She visited her doctor regularly, took her medications properly, ate right, exercised, and slept like a baby.
But one day she took her medication with some grapefruit juice and wound up in the emergency room.
Why?
Because as it happens, about a dozen common medications become toxic when mixed with grapefruit juice.
Do you take any of them? (She did.) Do you know what they are? (She didn’t.)
It’s this kind of unnecessary hospitalization—and potentially life-threatening medical misstep—that The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs can prevent.
Adverse drug reactions—ADRs—are more common, and more dangerous, than you think.
Every year adverse drug reactions cause thousands of hip fractures. Thousands of cases of mental impairment. Thousands of cases of drug-induced Parkinsonism.
Avoiding ADRs is all about taking charge.
No, not of your medical care. But of your medications.
And the best way to do that is with The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs—the family health and wellness tool that puts you at the control panels when it comes to what you put in your body to get, and stay, healthy.
The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs demystifies medications in plain English—not in “medicalese.”
In encyclopedic form, The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs lists medications alphabetically by their generic names. And if you don’t know the generic name, you can look it up in the brand-name index. You can even search for a medication by the medical condition for which it’s typically prescribed.
What will you learn? Plain and simple, everything you need to know to take your medications safely and effectively, including:
- Principal Uses.
- How the Drug Works.
- Dosages.
- Onset of Effects.
- Duration of Action.
- Dietary Advice.
- Storage.
- If You Miss A Dose.
- Stopping the Drug.
- Prolonged Use.
- Precautions.
- Overdose Information.
- Drug Interactions.
- Food Interactions.
- Disease Interactions.
...and much more.
You get nothing less than a blueprint for personal health—from the premier medical authorities in America—the physicians of Johns Hopkins Medicine! Johns Hopkins Hospital has been voted the leading facility in the United States for fifteen consecutive years as determined by U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.
But let me make just three more important points.
1. Accuracy.
Every single drug profiled in The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs is reviewed by a leading specialist from our team of 64 expert clinicians. You need never fear that information is sketchy, unproven, or inaccurate. Ever.
2. Convenience.
Accessibility and ease of use are paramount with us. In The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs, each drug is profiled on a single page, in large, readable type, with graphics that make consultations quick and hassle-free. You won’t be reaching for a magnifying glass to read tiny “encyclopedia” type!
3. NO RISK.
There aren’t many things in life—or in medicine—about which you can say that. But this offer is absolutely risk-free. Please fill out the Form below. It will direct us to send you The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs to examine for 30-days Free. We have already put a copy aside to accommodate your request. If you are not satisfied, simply return the book with no questions asked. End of story.
If you stay with us after your FREE PREVIEW, the savings are substantial.
Should you decide to keep The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs after your FREE PREVIEW, it’s yours for just $29.97 plus a modest shipping charge.
That’s 25% off the full retail price of $39.95—for one of the most valuable, and potentially life-saving, additions you could possibly make to your home library. So please don’t delay. It’s your continued good health—and that of your family—that is at stake.
Yours in good health,
Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry
Johns Hopkins Medicine
P.S. Speaking of your family, do note that, while The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs is specially edited and compiled for readers over 50, we haven’t forgotten the youngsters in your family. For every drug covered, there is a section that deals with its pertinence to children and infants. We’ve thought of everything—you need only accept our NO RISK offer to see what I mean.
