What Patients Need to Know About Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
One hell of a lot more than they do today!
[This is Chapter 1 of What Patients Need to Know About: Pharmaceutical Supply Chains, by Hedley Rees]
Who is this book for?
This book is for the enlightenment of patients. So, if you were, are, or could be a patient, this book is for you.
From now on, I’m speaking to you, the patient.
Prescription and over-the-counter drugs (drugs from here on) are the single biggest intervention in medical practice. The supply chains that make them are the vehicle by which drugs get into your body. Once in, you cannot get them out.
This book aims to explain to you all the things you need to know about developing, producing, and distributing drugs in the supply chain—all written in an easy-to-understand fashion.
You will be curious
You will also be a curious patient, someone who likes to ask questions and get answers, based on facts and evidence.
It may help in your job
As well as being a curious patient, you may well find the contents here useful in your chosen line of work or profession. That would incl…