Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Prevention: A GP’s view
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention. I recall during my early years of general practice asking my mentor “What do we actually do?” The answer was a good one, “We intervene in our patients lives, a little bit in each consultation”. A second experience was...
COVID-19: The ‘new normal’ needs to better than the old
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Visit us on Facebook. We’ve got time now to slow down. We’ve got time to spend with our...
Weight loss and obesity – we’ve been giving people the wrong advice
If people tell us that, ‘look I’ve been following all the guidelines and I’m still gaining weight’, what we do is we assume that they are lying. Isn’t that just…? Doh! You know, as the doctor, we assume that they are lying. We blame...