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
On staying aloft when demands push upon your bruised and aching heart
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On staying aloft when demands push upon your bruised and aching heart
Tuesday 1 May 2018, 10:47 AM

A lot has happened in the last five months
GP Kate Harding last appeared in New Zealand Doctor in December 2017, writing her “Diary of a reluctant GP” as she packed her bags to leave Whāngārei for the UK
Just imagine people around you! The sense of working in a team, rather than isolated in a small room from 8am until 6pm, with two hours’ unpaid paper
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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