Game of Chairs

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Game of Chairs

Kate Baddock
Kate Baddock likes to be a small-town, rural doctor with a national influence

Kate Baddock takes New Zealand Doctor reporter Alan Perrott through her life as a kitten whisperer, stage protégée, boys’ school dux and boarding-house mother, to actual mother, chair of everything and, most proudly of all, a rural GP

Back then they were: ‘Why are you going to be a GP? You’ll be wasted as a GP’, which I read as them saying it was a second-class career. I guess one o