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
From here to there and back again; Exit interview with Jonathan Simon
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From here to there and back again; Exit interview with Jonathan Simon
Wednesday 30 August 2017, 02:11 PM

Jonathan Simon has been a maverick on the primary care landscape in New Zealand for over 40 years. Variously described as brilliant, irascible, insightful, witty and visionary, he has always sought new and better ways of working. Never afraid to speak his mind when needs must. Jonathan left New Zealand recently for the UK, where he will spend more time with his family and continue to work in health. Before he left, New Zealand Doctor editor Barbara Fountain sat him down for a long chat (Photos by Peter Meecham)
DON’T FRATERNISE with the patients!
During his first hospital attachment, medical student Jonathan Simon was taken aside by a specialist and told t