On her final day of work, retiring veteran of reproductive health and abortion campaigner Margaret Sparrow performed five vasectomies at a Family Planning Association clinic in Wellington
Rotorua’s Te Kupenga A Kahu PHO has had its contract cancelled by the Lakes DHB after it failed to meet a repayment deadline for $102,000 in misspent SIA money
The winner of New Zealand Doctor's inaugural To Infinity and Beyond Award for work above the call of duty is a humble family man prepared to spend his weekends knee deep in mud, knocking on doors, politely declining propositions, asking gang members about drug use, taking tea with fugitives and serving a population to the very best of his ability
He has written a book, flown planes in Central America, started a global internet health business and been washed naked through the Indonesian jungle by a tsunami that hit his beachside grass hut in the middle of the night
Jim Vause is a self-confessed adrenalin junkie. A keen glider pilot, he recently crashed in a narrow valley on the remote Molesworth station between Blenheim and Hanmer
Last time Doctor investigated GP incomes the average annual earning pre tax was somewhere between $79,000 and $87,000. Nearly five years on, Doctor looks at incomes and sees little has changed. Susie Hill asks what should a GP earn and will PHOs be the vehicle for GPs to make more money?
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management