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MacDoctor
http://www.macdoctor.co.nz
MacDoctor is the thoughts of a doctor currently working as a GP in Auckland. He thinks politics and health make strange, and often uncomfortable, bedfellows and that the law of unintended consequences is particularly bitter in medicine.
- Added on: Jul 18th, 2009
- Country: New Zealand
- Language: English
- Author: Jim McVeagh
- Listed in: Medicine Politics
- Tags: politics christian health medicine society new zealand
Recent Posts
Bad Doctor (2)
Ron Paterson, the former Health and Disability Commissioner, is going to head up a research project into “the best practice on how the public can be confident any given medical practitioner is “a good doctor”“. While this soun...
If Doctors Used Climate Science…
If you have ever wondered what it would be like if professionals from other disciplines started using the peculiar logic used by climate scientists in their research, wonder no more. Tom Naughton on his eponymous blog gives us If Climate “Researche...
Sounds Familiar
This is the section on health from the 2025 Task Force summary: 10. Health: a. A funder-provider model should be reintroduced in the hospital sector, allowing much greater private sector involvement in the provision of taxpayer-funded services. b. Un...
Thicker Than Water
The gay rights group Rainbow Wellington is taking the New Zealand Blood Service to the Human Rights Commission over the restrictions on sexually active homosexual men giving blood. Frankly, I think this is a stupid waste of the scarce resources of th...
Spam Journalism #64
Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. It was inevitable that the sentinel event report , designed to help hospitals improve systems, would be seized upon by journalists to score so...
Forgone Conclusion
Apparently that nice Mr. Key is less than enthusiastic about the economic recommendations for his former rival Don Brash. Gasp! Shock. Horror. Not. Without even looking at Brash’s recommendations I could have told you that they will be rejected...
