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Once upon a time in Whirinaki | E-Tangata

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By Clare Ward
| E-Tangata Verified
Dr Clare Ward's memoir, A Place to Stand: A country doctor's life, is about how she found her place in Hokianga, as a Pākehā doctor in a largely Māori community. This is an extract. Whirinaki is a place in my own heart peopled by old friends. Most of them are dead now. If I want to see them, I must go to the cemetery on a Sunday. Except for burials, Rātapu is the only day sanctioned for passing through the gates of the urupā.
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The Waikato Times

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By Clare Ward
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‘There are still nurses who remember going by horseback to these houses’

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By Clare Ward
| The Post (Wellington)
Clare Ward is a country doctor living and working in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Hokianga Harbour, an area sparsely populated with many health challenges. This thoughtful memoir tells the story of her 30-year working life, the people she works with and the remote and isolated landscape in which she practises. A Place to Stand introduces us to a world very different from city life, sharing what it means to work as a country doctor with the challenges and rewards inherent in that.
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