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Andrew Dickens: Why the plan for a new Waikato medical school might not work
It's beggars belief these days when we report that it's hard to make money in a GP practice and that we don't have enough doctors.
Primary medical care is the most important care, forget your fancy specialists and rock star surgeons.
If your GP can spot and fix a problem as it begins then you can save your life and save the nation a ton on costs down the line so the health of our primary health sector should be of primary importance.
But it hasn't been.
We've added a million people through immigration over the past 10 years and we've also been creating new New Zealanders ourselves while our…
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