Learning to listen in the school of hard knocks

GP Graeme Fenton has spent his career working in the small, impoverished Northland town of Moerewa. Next year, his practice will join a new integrated family health centre in Kawakawa, signalling the end of an era for the GP and his patients. Dr Fenton recounts to Cliff Taylor his experience of looking behind the reputation of a tough town to find a big-hearted community in need of care