Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment
Practice interrupted: When campylobacter came to town
+News
Practice interrupted: When campylobacter came to town
Wednesday 29 March 2017, 09:00 AM
Havelock North is a picture-postcard town. On its leafy streets, climbing ivy looks charming rather than invasive. Its outskirts are carpeted in orchards and, over New Zealand's long summer months, it's known as the source of the best newly picked fruit. Last August, far away from the spoils of summer, it became known for something else: contaminated drinking water. Fiona Thomas looks at the impact for one practice
HAVELOCK NORTH GP Peter Culham had the sense that something was awry in his town. He had been seeing patients for days with gastroenteritis symptoms,