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
Personal reflections on a patient’s passing
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Personal reflections on a patient’s passing
Friday 9 June 2023, 11:00 AM

Ian’s focus was on socialising and he brushed bad habits and their health impacts aside [Image: Stanislav Ivanitskiy on Unsplash]
Greg Judkins shares one of his own poems to relate his experience of the death of a longterm patient, and the issues that raised for him
Are we overly concerned with how long one lives, rather than how well life is lived?
The police phoned me at home one weekend. Could I complete a
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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