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Nov 10, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Barbara Fountain |Patrice Dougan |Greg Judkins |Bruce Arroll
Cameron Schauer and Jason Robertson describe the symptoms, aetiology, subtypes and consequences of reflux. They also discuss the investigations used for diagnosis, investigating those with alarm features and evaluating success of treatment. Finally, they examine multimodal treatment, including lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical interventions
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Alan Perrott |Zach Thompson |Greg Judkins
+Off duty In print Upfront Hospital life and humanity seen from the inside Trish Harris has created a delightful collection of poems in My Wide White Bed Greg Judkins is charmed by Trish Harris’ poignant and witty reflections on her eight-week hospital stay When poet and disability advocate Trish Harris was forced to spend eight weeks in an orthopaedic ward, she witnessed a lot of comings and goings, ofte Oops, please login or sign up to read more.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Alan Perrott |Zach Thompson |Greg Judkins
+Print Archive Upfront Hospital life and humanity seen from the inside Trish Harris has created a delightful collection of poems in My Wide White Bed Greg Judkins is charmed by Trish Harris’ poignant and witty reflections on her eight-week hospital stay When poet and disability advocate Trish Harris was forced to spend eight weeks in an orthopaedic ward, she witnessed a lot of comings and goings, ofte Oops, please login or sign up to read more.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Zach Thompson |Zahra Shahtahmasebi |Greg Judkins
+Print Archive Upfront Winning ways with words Specialist GP Emily Cavana reads her short poem entry alongside retired specialist GP and competition maestro, Greg Judkins [Image: Smoke Photography] A record number of entries was enough to tempt longtime poetry competition organiser and now-retired specialist GP Greg Judkins to turn out for one more RNZCGP conference “I thought I wouldn’t be back,” Greg Judkins says of the recent GP24: Conference for General Practice.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
+Off duty In print Gut feeling guides moral compass Reflective experience helps to maintain balance in difficult circumstances [Image: Aziz Acharki on Unsplash] Greg Judkins looks at questions of morality and how his personal viewpoint has evolved over time At the time, this felt the most compassionate of my legal options, and the man and his family gratefully saw it that way
Cycling with friends rec Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
Wise people and others whose words “forked no lightning” may want to rail against their own passing [Image: Johannes Plenio on Unsplash] Greg Judkins looks at a well-known poem which shakes a fist at death and its inevitability It is not until the last stanza that the poem becomes very personal
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and this column looks at his most famous poem, Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
Childbirth is magical; it is common now for children to be present at a sibling’s birth [Image: Edward Cisneros on Unsplash] Greg Judkins looks at the heady aura surrounding medicine and doctors, particularly in earlier times, and how attitudes towards life events have evolved What do children make of us doctors? What magic do they ascribe to our tools of the trade? What do they imagine we can see when we peer into their ear Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
Instead of demanding perfection, we could recognise human fallibility and focus on the positive we find [Image: Joshua Fuller on Unsplash] Greg Judkins finds insights about criticism and the act of forgiveness, expressed in an earlier century, hold true today No matter how carefully we practise, an oversight or misunderstanding will occur from time to time
Alexander Pope was 23 years old and suffering Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
+Off duty Realising the limits to what one can do The sea washes in and claims sand; it’s not possible to hold back the forces of nature [Image: Sasha Stories on Unsplash] Greg Judkins discusses a short poem written by a poet and cancer patient, and the parallels that can be drawn from her reflections The sand she holds onto seems to represent time trickling through her fingers This poem is from New Zealand poet Sarah Broom’s second collection, Oops, please login or sign up to read more....
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Greg Judkins
The patient waits silently for a pause, for the doctor to stop speaking so they can talk from the heart [Image: Christopher Lemercier on Unsplash] Greg Judkins takes a look at the haiku form of poetry and how it can convey an image or situation using an economy of words Ambiguity, allowing a reader to discover more than one layer of meaning, is a common device in poetry
Haiku are like snapshot pics to the video o Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
