The Revised Second Edition is a practical guide to prescribing strategies which considers all the essential variables in drug selection: cost, compliance, drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, indications, therapeutic productivity, regimen durability, dose stability, and contraindications. This edition contains 48 full-color drug and disease incompatibility profiles, two new chapters, and a new appendix with more than 200 pages of drug reference information. Continues to feature dozens of charts, graphs, case studies, and sample drug regimens.