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Elisabeth Easter, The New Zealand
Listener
For more than 30 years,
Dr
David Galler has worked on the frontlines of New
Zealand’s health system as an intensive care specialist at
Middlemore Hospital and in its highest reaches as an advisor
to the Ministry of Health. His 2017 book,
Things
That Matter: Stories of life & death,
shines a powerful light on the extraordinary patients he met
and the struggles our society faces in caring for
them.
Developed over several years, Auckland Theatre
Company presents an important new New Zealand play by
award-winning playwright
Gary Henderson,
adapted from Galler’s generous and lyrical memoir.
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A Waitematā DHB doctor's letter to the government has warned medical staff are stretched and struggling to cope, while figures show hundreds of millions of dollars to spent on tackling the problem.
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Dr Adrian Kerner s letter to Justice Minister Kris Faafoi, obtained by
Checkpoint, says Auckland s emergency rooms are overwhelmed by patients showing up with alcohol and drug problems.
It also warns of people in their 20s and 30s who are alcohol dependent and showing signs of organ damage.
Meanwhile, data provided under the Official Information Act shows the problem is costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars.
Dr Kerner, a senior doctor and emergency medicine consultant, was unavailable for this story, but excerpts of his letter to Faafoi bore out just how much of a strain alcohol and drug misuse was having on the health system.