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On a specialist GP lost to an unforgiving system

1 February 2023

Geoff Cunningham

Wednesday 1 February 2023, 04:45 AM

It’s farewell, general practice, for Wellington specialist GP Emma Dunning [Image: Fraser Williamson]

As we sailed off to our respective holiday sunsets on 16 December, we turned off the comment function on our website. Believe me, it’s safer that way. Come 16 January, it was all systems go. Here, Whangārei specialist GP Geoff Cunningham comments on a heartfelt piece by Wellington specialist GP Emma Dunning as she closed her door on general practice – Ed.

Thank you, Emma, for this amazing piece (“Feel the fear and leave anyway: This is me trying, and failing, to stick with general practice”, nzdoctor.co

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