First steps: Share the love – label the relationship as ‘heartsink’, not the patient

Website intended for a NZ health professional readership

+Print Archive

Comment

First steps: Share the love – label the relationship as ‘heartsink’, not the patient

1 August 2018

The Registrar Panel

Wednesday 1 August 2018, 03:30 AM

Q: “I feel like I have a few heartsink patients because nobody else in my practice wants to deal with them. How can I make a difference for them in my short time here, and how do I stop myself feeling that way about them too?”

A: We all have our fair share of “heartsink patients” that are usually waiting for us on our return from holiday! Just being there to listen and c, Stephanie Taylor 2017, STEPHANIE TAYLOR – GP since 2004, RNZCGP examiner and practising at St Heliers Medical, Auckland

Registrars

GPs

Print Archive

How to Treat

+How to treat

Heart failure

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 12:45 AM