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Idiosyncratic and Uncommon Drug Effects

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Humans seems to the only species to use tools to make tools. Here Sir William offers one more distinguishing characteristic of homo sapiens. We certainly take a lot of drugs and, which should be no surprise, we suffer a lot of side effects.

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Taylor, R.B. (2011). Idiosyncratic and Uncommon Drug Effects. In: Essential Medical Facts Every Clinician Should Know. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7874-5_10

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