The 45 Year Old Junior Doctor
September 29, 2021
By NZB3
2021 is the year New Zealand got “The 57 Year Old Police Rookie,” a woman who benefited from the lowering of standards to allow less fit people to police us.
“If you want it hard enough you just work hard, you really have to,” she said. Ref. The 57 Year Old Police Rookie
Now we have a story about the 45 year old “Junior Doctor of the Year.” Another woman who says it’s hard work that saw her through…
“I worked my tail off…All you need to do is keep working towards your goal.”
Yet during this time period Otago medical school was running its ‘The Mirror on Society’ (policy est. 2012.) Hunter, who also says there’s no need to be “brainy and smart to be a doctor” took her study so seriously that she had a 4th baby during the (usually) highly competitive medical degree. She also acquired a moko and completely changed her complexion in a transformation worthy of Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
If you’re under Hunter’s knife you now must ask yourself a question that a vulnerable patient should never have to wonder about. Is this doctor fully capable? Or, is this mid-life woman here because of a change of haircut, a chin tattoo, Affirmative Action smoke and Mirrors, and a lot of Natural Glow makeup? If Hunter deserves her new role and “Junior” title then these institutional suspicions (backed by Labour 6.0) only get in her way and she ought to be, must be, angry about them.
“She decided at 36, and with four children, to enrol in medical school.”- Lakes District Health Board
“I left school at 16 and didn’t have any academic stuff behind me…People say you have to be brainy and smart to be a doctor, but you can do anything you want..” – Mum of five, Dr Tawa Hunter, named New Zealand Junior Doctor of the Year, NZ Herald (2021)
Otago University says it will fight a legal challenge to its scheme designed to boost the numbers of Māori and Pasifika students entering its medical school. The Mirror on Society Policy, introduced in 2012, means domestic students fitting into special categories…get preferential entry into Otago medical school. – Stuff (2020)
Otago University medical school’s closed-door discussions about capping the number of special entry students….The Medical Council and the Race Relations Commissioner have joined Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield in stressing that the sooner the medical workforce reflects the communities it serves, the better.- Caution urged over ‘out of blue’ proposal to limit special pathway for Māori, Pasifika at Otago Med School, Stuff (2020)
If a hard-working teen received the training (not to mention extra help) of this mid-life woman then New Zealand could have had a doctor after 5 years. Hunter took 9 and will be old enough to retire in less than 20 years whereas a 23yo doctor could give New Zealand more than double that service. Maybe more, since a non-Mirrors candidate *would* need to be “brainy and smart to be a doctor.”
New Zealand will now discover if Political Correctness has been a wise substitute for health investment.
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Image ref. Hunter in an earlier incarnation, Nga Aho
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