Sitemap - 2024 - Dr Gary Payinda's Substack

#Ozempic for alcoholism? What's this?

Axing half our Health IT services? What could possibly go wrong?

Reti & Levy announcement: 'We didn't cancel something. Please clap.'

More nurses would save money and lives.

Preventing 'avoidable' deaths: Too expensive? Or too expensive not to?

"Nurse Safe Staffing?" Never heard of it.

On "self-censorship"

Levy and Reti: the Auditor General forces them to be honest.

Austerity in Healthcare as Margie almost hits the million dollar club

"Unrealised gains"

"Contestable": when poor people (or hospitals) have to fight for scraps.

Will NZ hospitals really have to fight each other to get these funding crumbs?

Reti +Levy: Having Burned Down a Forest, they want praise for replanting a single tree.

"No shortage here", says the austerity government.

The biggest fish, and other healthcare white lies.

When is a doctor prohibited from speaking out?

Public Healthcare: the sicker they make it, the bigger the private profit

To say something, or to keep quiet?

Came up on a big car crash this week on SH1. Lessons for anyone who ends up being the first on a scene...

A friend of mine, who is a staunch supporter of National+ACT, surprised me recently.

I've put up a bunch of (long, dry, boring, but hopefully informative) videos on TikTok explaining the current problems in NZ healthcare, and the coalition government's push to Defund, Destabilise, and Privatise essential Public services.

My interview on @RNZ @CheckpointRNZ with #lisaowen

"If you read just one Hungarian demagogue's polemic this year, it should be this one..." 🫠

Assisted dying: sorry you don't qualify.

A patient death in the Middlemore ED waiting room; patient tragedy, politician gaslighting & moral injury.

Nurse Practitioners Left Hanging for Months

Today's installment of "Defund, Destabilise, Privatise": 140 Nurse Practitioner candidates left hanging for months.

Who needs a Chief Medical Officer?

Northern Ireland's Troubles aren't Ancient History

Ask Dr Gary: Covid and the brain

Show us your passport first

11.4% of all deaths on Vancouver Island, are with Medical Assistance in Dying

On Land "lords", wealth taxes, and tax policies that increase poverty.

Waiting room death at Rotorua Hospital Emergency Department

Ask Dr Gary: Blocked Up

Invite your friends to read Dr Gary Payinda's Substack

The Shaman and the Norwegian Princess

Harvesting knowledge: a travel diary through European healthcare, migration, wealth + poverty inequality, and public policy.

Problem Solved: Goodbye to ED "Code Black"

Farcical is right.

Last Words

Let's change things. Now.