Lucy O'Hagan

Doctor. Patients. Stories.

Writing

Health care based on need is trickier to do than you think…

The political tag line ‘health care based on need’ is pretty enraging when you are at the coalface dealing with gross health inequities. Read more about why the rage here

Fa’afetai lava Tamā Pesetā

This is a personal story about the life of my sister-in-law’s father Pesetā Iosefa. And along side that the life of my own father. It is a reflection on the blessings that come from marriage across cultures and the joining of two families over 45 years.

Read here.

Visiting Waitangi on Waitangi day

What an incredible uplifting experience. We all need to to it once in our lives. Well im going back next year! Let me convince you, read here.

Oration. RNZCGP Fellowship and awards ceremony.

It was a great honour to be invited to speak at the GP college awards and fellowship ceremony. I love this ceremony. As a teacher it is so uplifting to see students cross the stage.

What should I say to them I wondered? You can read my speech here.

50 years of RNZCGP, my reflection.

I was 10 when the Royal New Zealand College of GPs was started. The following 5 decades were times of enormous change in our country, in medicine and in me. Understanding our history helps us with the future.

Read here.

Understanding the realities of health inequities

There is so much talk these days from people who appear to have had a blessed life with plenty of resources who don’t quite get that we don’t all start with blessings and resources.

Read my thoughts from the front line of health care here.

Unpacking my own unconcious racial bias.

It’s confronting stuff. Read here.

Narrating Our Selves

How doctors create their identity through the stories they take part in.

Eric Elder memorial lecture, presented at RNZCGP conference 2016.

Read full article [PDF] or read full text on Journal of Primary Health Care

Doing Telephone Consultations in my Socks

A reflection on doing consultations in lockdown

Read full article [PDF] or read full text on Journal of Primary Health Care

On not being Ashley

A reflection on how amazing Ashley Bloomfield is but my job is different to his…

Read here