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Pragati Gautama is locuming as a GP and rural hospital specialist, having spent the past four years as a GP partner at Cromwell Medical Centre. The South Island clinical lead for the RNZCGP’s Division of Rural Hospital Medicine, Dr Gautama is based in Alexandra. When not practising, she teaches early management of severe trauma and advanced paediatric life support. She loves rural places and rural health
Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
