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
Gut feeling guides moral compass
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Gut feeling guides moral compass
Friday 5 April 2024, 01:45 PM

Reflective experience helps to maintain balance in difficult circumstances [Image: Aziz Acharki on Unsplash]
Greg Judkins looks at questions of morality and how his personal viewpoint has evolved over time
At the time, this felt the most compassionate of my legal options, and the man and his family gratefully saw it that way
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