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The devastation of a broken marriage, knowing my GP was ‘the other woman’
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The devastation of a broken marriage, knowing my GP was ‘the other woman’
Wednesday 19 August 2020, 03:45 AM

Just when the patient most needed the medical profession, she could not trust that practitioners put her health and wellbeing first (Image: Model)
PATIENT STORY
A patient affected by a GP’s breach of professional boundaries shares her story and the difficulty she has in ever trusting a doctor again
It was heartbreaking to learn my husband of more than 20 years was having an affair. It was devastating to discover the other woman was our family GP.
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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