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The news that Timaru Emergency Department is “turning away” patients (actually, sending them to their GPs) is exciting Labour’s health spokesperson, the barely noticeable Ruth Dyson.
Labour MP and health spokesperson Ruth Dyson believes essential...
Pharmac is almost universally hated by GPs. The incomprehensible funding decisions. The endless “special authorities” designed only to stop you prescribing a drug. The sudden unexpected loss of control of a patient’s disease because of a change to a...
If I suggested to someone that they should let their six-year-old drive their Kawasaki motorbike down the freeway, you would rightly be suggesting that they lock me up somewhere nice and quiet. Yet that is more or less how risky it is to allow a child...
A recent high quality study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the use of intravenous drugs in out-of-hospital resuscitation does not lead to better survival rates – just more admissions to hospital. This is a significant...
The Abortion Supervisory Committee are pushing for more use of the abortifacient, RU486. They say that it is being used in only 6% of abortions while the “standard” overseas is 20 – 30%.
Now I don’t have a problem with RU486 being used instead of a...
