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Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps explains how you can provide a prophylactic gift to colleagues by helping them to see themselves as others see them
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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
