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It’s a heartache

14 December 2022

Barbara

Fountain

editor@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 05:00 AM

Because everything seems simpler under fairy lights [Image: Olga Ubirailo on iStock]

Editor Barbara Fountain writes of primary care’s struggles trying not to come a gutser in COVID’s third year

This year has exhausted us all. We thought the prior two years, with lockdowns and “traffic lights” and vaccine drives and boosters and video consu, Barbara Fountain, Barbara Fountain

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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

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