Jim Vause

There are some innate skills and instincts that cannot easily be taught, writes Jim Vause

Why do we let politicians invent health policy, asks GP Jim Vause, pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic as a great example of allowing the real experts to inform the Government’s response

Try as I might, I cannot remember an oath-reading ceremony when I graduated from medical school

GP Jim Vause considers the hands-on skills practitioners used to have, after watched the gung-ho approach of nurse Claire Beecham in the hit series Outlander

Once upon a time, like the mail, a GP’s referral always got through. Time changes all, and feelings of rejection are now commonplace in general practice, thanks to triaging

The University of Otago should have foreseen the jealous reaction to its Mirror on Society policy once it really started working, writes GP Jim Vause 

GP Jim Vause mulls over the possibilities for accommodating a new public holiday to mark Matariki