What is side effect, adverse reaction and adverse effects? Yesterday I was so happy when my sister asked me to discuss any topic with her from her Pharmacology book. I like to read previous books, gives me an quick overview and makes me feel nostalgic about my college day. Anyway i was in quite a surprise when I saw a chapter dedicated to pharmacovigilance(PV) in her book, it was not there in my 2nd year (2005).
Being my favourite topic we started reading it, and she had lot of questions and then i explained her every bit of what i know about topic, and my job. She was so amused "Oh man, your job is tough", well mine is ok, there are many experts and people at much much higher level than me working for it, i explained her. At the end of discussion her question was "why did i not see any adverse event reporting form till now in India? I was speechless, well the gutso I had with inclusion…
