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Toby Hills is a general practice registrar based in Wellington. In the past, he's written videogame reviews for a variety of publications. He rejects the false binary of being either a cat-person or a dog-person.

How to see your GP in lockdown New Zealand. And what you can do to help us

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Medical centres around the country have been instructed to reduce the number of in-person consultations they conduct by 70%. Toby Hills, a doctor based in Porirua, explains the rationale behind this and what the public can do to support our primary care system. Even during a pandemic, humans still get sick for other reasons. Appendixes … Read more

Trainee doctors travelling on the taxpayer’s dime? It’s not as bad as you think

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There’s been outrage since it was revealed that up to one in five final year medical students at the University of Otago falsified their overseas placements by spending portions of that time travelling instead. But GP registrar and former Otago medical student Toby Hills finds himself empathising deeply with his younger colleagues. One of the … Read more