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
River dunking etched in tramper’s memory
Wednesday 11 May 2022, 01:30 AM

Martin Johnston smiling through the shivers beside Lauper Stream, after a dunking in a swift-flowing Rakaia River (which is situated further behind him) [Image: Michael Johnston]
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We gripped onto each other and kicked for our lives
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