For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Wit, integrity and knowledge: The larger-than-life Dr Jessamine
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Wit, integrity and knowledge: The larger-than-life Dr Jessamine
Friday 29 March 2019, 11:05 AM

The late Stewart Jessamine, one of the health ministry’s “real personalities”
Virginia McMillan gathers some reflections on the late Stewart Jessamine, a Ministry of Health stalwart and a family man
He was a man with a lot of integrity, in that you always knew exactly where you were...he didn’t hedge or hide behind management or political speak
, Stewart Jessamine
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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