Doubling down on solo practice

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Doubling down on solo practice

Barbara
Fountain
Shila and Ashwin Patel
Shila and Ashwin Patel love their new working arrangement, which involves two solo practices an hour’s drive apart [image: NZD]

Ashwin and Shila Patel have the best of town and country practice, writes editor Barbara Fountain

At an age when many GPs might be dreaming of retiring, Auck­land specialist GP and distin­guished RNZCGP Fellow Ashwin Patel doubles down. Not onl, matakana garden, Aerial shot of the 6ha property that drew Ashwin and Shila Patel to the Matakana area in 2019: it takes four hours on a ride-on mower to cut the lawns