GP as general factotum: Working in an island practice a back-in-time experience

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GP as general factotum: Working in an island practice a back-in-time experience

Orna McGinn
Waiheke view CR Look up look down photography on Unsplash
Not everyone living on picturesque Waiheke Island is a vintner or oligarch [Image: Look Up Look Down Photography on Unsplash]

Orna McGinn gets to see behind the tourism images of island life and finds an off-the-grid underbelly, along with severe practice under-resourcing

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