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
Lessons to be learnt from rural medical education in Northern Ontario
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Lessons to be learnt from rural medical education in Northern Ontario
Wednesday 13 December 2017, 12:00 AM

John and Sue Burton commuting to work at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in provincial Sudbury
Inspired by a meeting with the dean of Northern Ontario Medical School, Kawhia GP John Burton and his wife Sue accepted an offer to visit the school for three months. There they have found some useful insight into how to train health professionals for rural communities, insight that can help with decisions to be made in New Zealand
The cost of providing a really effective training and research centre is going to prove to be more than what the business plans are suggesting. But ca