Bearing up: Clinic team was buoyed by COVID efforts, now it’s just fatigued

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Bearing up: Clinic team was buoyed by COVID efforts, now it’s just fatigued

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It can’t be taken for granted that general practice will bear up under the strain

A year on since New Zealand’s first COVID-19 lockdown we are checking back with many of the GPs in our 2020 lockdown Bearing Up series for their views and news. Here we follow up with Havelock North GP David Doig

“The challenge now is actually finding appointment times in house to serve the community that still quite anxiously wants to see us” The new norm, David Doig 2016, Te Mata Peak GP David Doig