Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Frequent GP visits improve health outcomes for children with asthma; however, they are often irregular and inconsistent leading to an increase in hospital readmissions, new research has found.

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

MARCH 24, 2020

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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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

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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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

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.

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