Careers in Pharmacology
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1.0 Medicines in action
2.0 Careers
3.0 Studying pharmacology

1.2 How the body gets rid of medicines

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Why does metabolism of medicines occur?

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Prescription

So, a pharmacologist needs to know how fast paracetamol is removed from the body to know how often to give it.

This avoids:

too little being given
(and the effect wearing off)

or

too much being given
(and side effects such as liver damage appearing)

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