Making general practice great again

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Making general practice great again

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

Commodore PC_Lorenzo Herrera on Unsplash
Back in the 1980s, computers existed only in Wellington [image: Lorenzo Herrera on Unsplash]

Emeritus GP Jim Vause looks fondly back on life as a GP 40 years ago, and wonders what model of care could make general practice a happy place again

I admired my first partner. He had an incredible ability to turn up at the surgery at 10am after a morning ward round at the cottage hospital, work li
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1 Dr Hilary Burbidge, Dr Anna Riddiford and Dr Leonie Walker . Insights from a survey of non-owner general practitioners in Aotearoa, New Zealand: cause for concern?