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Over The Top

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Will a night nurse or a GP go into her house to help her to die well, wearing a full hazmat suit? It is quite surreal to hear this dismissal of the value of life, based on the fact that the person might have had a drop of asthma or a bit of the old stage 4 cancer. Surely there's no need to go wasting precious resources for that?

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

More GPs = Higher Life Expectancy Did you know that people in areas with more GPs live longer ? Studies from the USA showed that adding one GP per 10,000 inhabitants was associated with 2-5 fewer deaths 5 , 6 and 4 fewer hospitalizations 5 annually. 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

Respiratory drugs, including many inhaled medications, exhibited dramatically increased prescribing during March 2020, with some evidence from the types of inhalers involved that this was driven primarily by patients with COPD rather than asthma.