Author: Ian Powell

First a disclosure. I’m the co-owner of a plug-in hybrid car. It cost in the vicinity of $20,000 more than…

It has been said more than once that overcrowding in emergency departments is a barometer of how public hospitals as…

On 4 August Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report broke a story about North Shore Hospital having an entire ward of…

Veteran political journalist Vernon Small’s latest regular paywalled column in Stuff’s Sunday Star Times (3 August) has brought to life…

The business case used to justify the Government’s decision to establish a third medical school at Waikato University “…seemed to…

On 21 May I was introduced to two new words (always a moment of light excitement for me) by Dr…

If there was a ‘most prolific blogger while still being consistently thought-provoking’ award it would be hard to beat Bomber…

I still remember metaphorically sitting at the knee of legendary union leader Bill Andersen while listening to him opine pearls…

In Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system there are 36 branches of vocational (specialist) medicine registered by the Medical Council. These…

I have published three previous blog posts on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza by means of genocide. Ethnic…