Hastings Doctor Jailed For Drugging, Indecently Assaulting Patients. And There’s a “Concerning Shortage” of Senior Doctors in Hawke’s Bay

A GP was drugging and sexually abusing his patients. Why didn’t health centre staff go to the police?

Thoughts are with Buzz Aldrin, who went to the moon and back. Unfortunately he has ended up at the mercy of an underfunded NZ health system

Spare a thought today for Buzz Aldrin who was medivac’d from the South Pole to Christchurch Hospital by the American National Science Foundation. A statement on his website gave the following information: EVACUATION TO CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND – 1915 UTC Thursday 1st December. The evacuation flight for Buzz Aldrin has successfully landed at Christchurch, New…

ER Head At Dunedin Resigns In Protest

The ODT is carrying a report about the resignation of the Clinical Leader of its emergency care facility. He’s resigning in protest at proposed staffing levels: “Dr Tim Kerruish resigned as clinical leader yesterday morning after about 15 months in the role, effective immediately, but will stay on as a specialist. His position was “untenable” because of a disagreement…

Bullying Rife In NZ Hospitals

The NZDoctor.co.nz website reported today on last night’s Wellington forum on the subject of burnout in the medical profession. Experts said that doctors in New Zealand aren’t good at giving each other the support and affirmation needed to avoid burnout. Furthermore, hospitals are rife with bullying Hospitals rife with bullying “A bullying culture exists at…

New Zealand’s Health System Plunges in Rankings

New Zealand has moved from first to fifth place in international health rankings of seven countries, carried out by the Commonwealth Fund The slide is due mostly to issues of access, high costs preventing people from visiting doctors or filling prescriptions, safety and management of chronic illness and New Zealanders being the patients most likely…