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Five things worth reading before your next appointment
Medicines · 6 min
Four tablets doing two jobs: how to read a medicine shelf
Most people we assess are on something twice, something they stopped needing in 2019, and something that fights one of the others. Here is how to lay them all out on a table and work out which is which before your next appointment.
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At home · 5 min
The five things in a Ghanaian house that cause most falls
It is almost never the stairs. It is the step down into the yard at dusk, the rug by the bathroom door, the bulb nobody replaced, the slippers, and the habit of getting up too fast. All five are cheap to fix.
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Recovery · 8 min
The first six weeks after a stroke matter more than the next six months
Recovery is steepest early and then it flattens. What that means practically is that missing sessions in weeks two to eight costs far more than missing them later — and that traffic, not motivation, is what usually causes it.
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Clinic · 4 min
Why we take your blood pressure three times, sitting and standing
One reading at a clinic desk tells you about that desk. Three, including one after standing up, tells you whether the medicine that is controlling the number is also the reason somebody keeps ending up on the floor.
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Hospital · 7 min
What to ask before somebody is discharged
Six questions, in order, that a family can ask a ward before signing anything. They take four minutes and they prevent most of the readmissions we see in the fortnight afterwards.
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