Thanks to today's medical advances, there are many pharmaceutical drugs available to cure almost any disease that may afflict a person. However, due to lack of time, many doctors fail to explain fully the effects a drug may have on a patient.

With a free web-based drug and formulary reference guide like Epocrates, clinicians and patients alike can have access to information on any drug at all.

Take Effexor as an example. You can find out the reaction of Effexor with other drugs, and right down to an image of the Effexor pill. This is what we call advancement in technology.