Karen Hoare has made history in nursing and academia more than 30 years after setting off for The Gambia somewhat as an accessory to her doctor husband. Fiona Cassie reports
Specialist GP Bryan Betty talks about his stoical mother, Catholic school education, and stints in improv theatre and mining-town doctoring. Alan Perrott draws together the threads between these experiences and the leadership for which Dr Betty is renowned
When young GP-in-training Nikki Turner kissed a kuia as part of welcoming her into a consultation, her GP trainer called the action sexually inappropriate. Virginia McMillan reports on the rise of a specialist GP with mana
Fepulea’i Margie Apa, the first Pacific person to head New Zealand’s health service, grew up in south Auckland at a time of social and economic upheaval
The former GP and founder of online medical advisory service Doctor Global has in recent years been working in the emergency department at Auckland City Hospital
He has written a book, flown planes in Central America, started a global internet health business and been washed naked through the Indonesian jungle by a tsunami that hit his beachside grass hut in the middle of the night
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management