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
But Doc, it’s so cold
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But Doc, it’s so cold
Friday 7 December 2018, 02:25 PM

A night at "the boozer" leads to a trip to hospital for one reveller
TGOB on a trip in the ambulance with a patient who had been stabbed in the neck with a broken beer bottle
We had just gone to bed, and were half asleep on a night when I wasn’t on call.
I heard a noisy car coming down our long drive then saw someone cl
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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