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Medicines are essential, but they're also deadly

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Medicines are essential, but they're also deadly

We use medicines everyday. Coroners reports teach us their harms.

Dr Georgia Richards
Apr 11, 2023
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Medicines are essential, but they're also deadly

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Your wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer. A palliative care plan is put in place involving strong pain medicines, fentanyl patches, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine, to help reduce her suffering.

A patch is like a plaster that sticks to the skin to administer the medicine. The palliative care nurse wrongly advises your wife to take a bath …

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