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
A few words from…Martin London
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A few words from…Martin London
Thursday 14 April 2022, 08:49 AM

Martin London at Avalanche Peak in Arthur’s Pass National Park; he also enjoys “heavy duty” gardening and live theatre [Image: Steve August]
Martin London is a semiretired rural GP locum working three days a week, mainly in Akaroa – a return to where he cut his teeth in the 1980s. He and wife Karol returned from 10 years working in South Westland to build in Little River, being nearer to a city while still rural, to grow fruit and nuts, and be closer to family and friends. For two months a year Dr London works on the Chatham Islands. In between all that, his natural habitat is in the mountains
Laughter is the best thing about my job. It’s everywhere. Among the staff, in the waiting room and somewhere in almost all patient consultations.
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Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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