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A lively debate in the final plenary at last year’s Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Primary Care Conference considered the provocation: ‘My Doctor Makes Me Sick — what can we do about it?’. The event was run by the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy both seen as necessary to support the individually-tailored care that GPs and patients1 seek. But GPs have described needing help in tailoring prescribing to individual needs, particularly when individual needs may appear to be at odds with the ‘ideal’ described by guidelines for best practice.2 So how can we help professionals and patients tackle a problem of perceived overprescribing and problematic polypharmacy?
Reeve et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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