The GP’s conundrum

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The GP’s conundrum

Patrice
Dougan
GP CR Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash
With their mainly hospital-based colleagues planning to strike, GPs feel tempted to take industrial action – but it’s complicated [Image: Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash]

Acting editor Patrice Dougan finds the GP’s lot in many countries is pretty much as dire as it seems in New Zealand

So the senior doctors are going on strike. The planned strike action by nurses was called off at the eleventh hour, and teachers had rolling strike