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A choice selection of Friday Funny videos and the like

Dr Dave, a GP from somewhere in New Zealand, resumes his weekly jottings about the state of the world and general practice

Amazing. It’s an adjective that usually labels the awesome and surprising but can equally apply to the shocking and unbelievable. And the latter is where the word has its roots – its Old English forebear “amasian” means to confuse and astonish; it’s also the source of the word “maze”

Despite best intentions, the COVID-19 response is proving divisive on many fronts, writes nurse educator Barbara Docherty 

For the super nerds among us, the day the Government tabled the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill in Parliament was thrilling

What to write that won’t sound like a broken record, something I’ve written many times before? But, yet again, I have to say that all is not well when it comes to relationships in the health sector

It seems only last month I was writing about how complicated it is to make things simple – and, actually, it was only last month

Two current events illustrate the extremely peculiar relationship between the Government and general practice.

I have found a new condition and named it lockdown dreads.

I asked David Meates, former Canterbury DHB chief executive to choose, from a list, the song he thought the health reforms Transition Unit might be singing next July. Mr Meates opted for Bob Dylan’s “Don’t think twice, it’s all right”.