Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
Soldiering on for the Aussie rural community he loves
Wednesday 2 February 2022, 02:55 AM

Australian GP Jeff Lee practises in the rural village of Cobargo, hit by bushfires and then the COVID pandemic [NZD]
Specialist GP Jeff Lee, of rural Australia, featured on the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa cover on 29 January 2020 in the aftermath of bushfires. Now Omicron has arrived, writes Zahra Shahtahmasebi
Key points, Two years after bushfires hit his home and general practice, specialist GP Jeff Lee says his small New South Wales town escaped Delta, but had six Omi