Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment
From chaos to calm? COVID in the community
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Amazing 2021
From chaos to calm? COVID in the community
Wednesday 8 December 2021, 09:00 AM
There is “amazing, incredible” and “amazing, shocking”. For general practice, events of 2021 fell all along that spectrum. Whether it was the amazing, incredible COVID-19 response provided by general practice and Māori and Pacific health services in an almost vacuum of support from officialdom, or the amazing, unbelievable tangles ensuing as care in the community rolled out, it was all complicated and complex – literally, a maze. In the following pages, the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team picks up a few of the themes of a tumultuous 2021
No one told Matire Harwood how New Zealand GPs were meant to manage endemic COVID in the community. Instead, Dr Harwood and her south Auckland colleag, Matire Harwood 2, Matire Harwood [NZD]