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
Following the many faces of general practice this year
Wednesday 11 December 2024, 05:30 AM

Specialist GP Thomas Cartier
Every issue of New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa highlights a member of the general practice team, whom we have persuaded to share a “few words” about their life – their loves, loathes and things we may not have guessed about them. And every year we round up a few of those key findings for our Summer Edition. First up are two Few Words folk who both trained abroad before landing in New Zealand – GP Thomas Cartier, who trained in France, and nurse Marryllyn Donaldson, who is from the UK
Thomas Cartier trained in France and is the sole doctor at Te Whare Hauora o Ngāruahine in Manaia. Skydiving – at least once – is at the top of his bu