New-to-NZ GP too self-reliant

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New-to-NZ GP too self-reliant

Dr Vanessa Caldwell
Deputy health and disability commissioner Vanessa Caldwell has ruled an overseas-trained, newly arrived GP in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights [Image: James Gilberd Photography]
A man was diagnosed with terminal cancer after a GP twice failed to escalate treatment of his neck lump. The failure was a breach of the Code of He