Respiratory physician Lutz Beckert considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management, including the prevention of COPD, the importance of smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation, and the lifesaving potential of addressing treatable traits. He also discusses the logic of inhaler therapy, moving from single therapy to dual and triple therapy when indicated, as well as other aspects of management
Health workers: If exposed in a pandemic, are you going to skulk or show ‘spunk’?
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Health workers: If exposed in a pandemic, are you going to skulk or show ‘spunk’?
Wednesday 11 March 2020, 05:30 AM
Health professionals taking part in Exercise Cruikshank, a pandemic preparedness exercise, back in 2007. No hiding behind the hedge
JUST WONDERING
Doctors are not obliged to treat a high-risk patient if they can’t protect themselves, but should they risk it anyway? Lucy O’Hagan ponders her youthful sense of doctor as hero – and crosses her fingers
When I was a young GP, I read the autobiography of Doris Gordon, who was a GP in Stratford during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
Dr Gordo
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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