pharmacology

Good for respiratory therapy students- not useful for students in pharmacy or medicine. Too many incorrect statements and important omissions. Very superficial coverage of non-pulmonary topics.

This is a very good teaching book which uses simple language. Much better book than Rau's Resp pharmacology, BUT I'm afraid professors are used to Rau's book b/c it has been around long time. Often profesors are afraid to switch books (or lazy b/c have to make new notes), BUT they should switch whenever another book comes out that is better than the one they are using to teach.

I think Colbert and Mason have done a great job with a text that is typically student "unfriendly". I am using it for the first time with a class and students are actually reading the chapters! Other text lose students with terminology and tend to get bogged down in the biochemistry of pharmacolgy losing site of when and how the drugs should be used. The students love the web site and use it to further challenge themselves.