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
Remember, you can't hide your inside eyes
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Remember, you can't hide your inside eyes
Friday 23 November 2018, 11:03 AM

New columnist and GP registrar Narae Song has made Wellington her home
Narae Song is a first-year GP registrar working on the Kapiti Coast. She is an Otago graduate and has worked in various places over the years, but Wellington is now home. She says she joined general practice because it was her first love in medicine. “It matched my vision of what a quintessential doctor looks like: the jack of all trades who knows everything from runny noses, funny head lumps and that weird sound you hear whenever you open your jaw.” Dr Song is starting a regular online column for New Zealand Doctor
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