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News & Views
Dr Rodger C Charlton
General Practitioner & Associate Clinical Professor, Warwick Medical School & Honorary Editor, RCGP Publications
E-mail: rodger.charlton@warwick.ac.uk
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Future global healthcare crisis
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Professor Barbara Starfield of the John Hopkins University,
Baltimore has written a thought-provoking commentary in the
latest edition of the
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 20:511–2, entitled Global Health, Equity, and
Primary Care. She describes the global challenge to primary
care and general practice of ageing populations and so more
of what she refers to as ‘multimorbidity’. There
is an increasing likelihood of survival from acute manifestations
of disease and that the costs of care will grow with increasing
availability of technological interventions. She says that "World
organisations of primary care physicians need to take up the
challenge before it becomes a crisis". She describes the approach
to organising services using the disease-by-disease orientations
as becoming increasingly dysfunctional. She writes: "Multimorbidity
is demanding not "chronic disease" management but, rather, a
chronic
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NICE guidance & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Benefits and risk of homoeopathy
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Death of the first Glasgow University professor of general practice
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Prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome
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Contentment in general practice
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Ear wax
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Chaperones
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