Just occasionally, when the media run a “bad doctor” story, the doctor is actually bad. Such is the story of Sajan Bhatia, the disgraced Southland urologist, who has apparently continued to practice as a doctor long after the medical council refused to renew his practicing certificate. This is the medical equivalent of a hanging offense. [...]

And I mean that very literally. 7.8 on the Richter scale is not to be sneezed at. It seems like Southland has been rocking the whole day with multiple aftershocks and it sounds like there is a good chance of further larger quakes. I was living in Invercargill when the 2003 quake stuck (that was [...]

There was an ugly example of inexcusably lazy journalism in the Herald on Sunday, yesterday (not available online). In an article on homicidal mental health patients, in a sidebar on Mark Burton – the man who stabbed his mother to death shortly after discharge from Invercargill Mental Health unit – comes this horror: Dr Tom O’Flynn, [...]