Creating medical mayhem on Shortland Street and more from New Zealand Doctor

The 2 August issue of New Zealand Doctor is out now.

Virginia McMillan meets Sue Pullon, a GP who initially gave up medicine to work for the environment, before returning to rise through academia

The gene may be out of the bottle but, as Cliff Taylor discovers, only a few super-enthusiastic GPs are fully grasping how personalised medicine will reshape healthcare

“Is it you or is it me?” Medical soap series Shortland Street has been thrusting controversial health issues into New Zealanders’ living rooms for 25 years. Aaron van Delden takes the pulse of the programme as it reaches maturity

They’re pretty self-sufficient in the Catlins so when faced with the loss of their local medical centre, the community rallied around to buy it themselves as Liane Topham-Kindley finds out

Hamilton property developers and GPs combine their powers for a $5 million practice expansion. Fiona Thomas reports

All this and more in the latest issue of New Zealand Doctor. Subscribe