Events

AUTHOR EVENTS AND ONE WOMAN SHOW

Review of performance Inside the GP Consultation

Like everyone else who saw it, I was knocked-out, stunned, blown away. It’s a really good book. I named it one of the best of the year at ReadingRoom. But I had no idea her hour-long show was going to be a theatrical production with props, songs, stand-up comedy, as she acted out a typical day’s consultation with 11 patients. The audience laughed like drains and held onto every word. When it finished, she was rewarded with the longest standing ovation that I think I have ever heard for an author at a writers festival. I mean it just went on and on and on. She was whisked away to the book signing table at the Poppies Bookstore stall… the demand for Everything But the Medicine was so great that Poppies sold out every single copy. Huzzah to O’Hagan. She was the break-out star of HamLit.

Steve Braunias. Newsroom

EVENTS FOR GPS:ONE WOMAN SHOW

Tauranga Monday 23rd February

Gisborne Monday 2nd March

Palmerston North 10 March

Wellington March 12 March

Blenheim Thursday 21st May

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WAIKANAE

Wed 6th May

Local GP and writer Lucy O’Hagan and writer Carl Shuker in conversation with local health commentator Ian Powell.

How can literature support medicine and vice versa? Does narrative writing help to develop empathy?
How does your medical experience influence your creativity?
Can you apply a story based formula to improve understanding of patient needs?
Could this be applied in health policy?

Followed after tea by Lucy O’Hagan’s Inside the GP consultation takes you through a morning of general practice. A One-woman show with 32 characters. Poignant and funny.

BOOK HERE

Otago University Wellington

Friday May 8th

Performance for staff, students and alumni

Featherston Booktown Festival

8-10 May 2026

Tickets here

SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MEDICAL MEMOIR

Saturday 3pm–3.55pm, Kiwi Hall, $25

Being a medical professional is hard! Being a writer is hard! Being a medical professional AND a writer?! How is that even possible?? Poet and doctor Glenn Colquhoun will get to the bottom of this as he interviews Dr Lucy O’Hagan, author of Everything but the Medicine, and Professor of Māori health and former nurse Jacquie Kidd (Ngāpuhi), author of Ngākaurua, about their candid and provocative memoirs.

Generously sponsored by Dennis Roberts and Richard Stone

LUCY O’HAGAN: INSIDE THE GP CONSULTATION

Sunday 9am–9.55am, Supper Room, $25

Watch our Supper Room transform into your doctor’s office right before your eyes as Dr Lucy O’Hagan delivers a riveting and intimate performance of her extraordinary one-woman show Inside the GP Consultation.

Generously sponsored by Wairarapa Medical.

Massey University, Palmerston North

Monday 11 may 12.00-1.00pm

Performance of Inside the GP Consultation

For Massey staff, students and alumni.

Havelock North Library

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE

Wednesday 13 may 6pm

Books sales and signing form 5.30pm. Supported by Wardini Books

Tickets here

Auckland Writers festival

Friday 15th May 10-11am Waitākere Room

Aotea Centre

Tickets here

The Cost of Care

Best-selling medical memoirs The Unlikely Doctor by Dr Timoti Te Moke and Everything but the Medicine by Lucy O’Hagan ask urgent questions about what good care in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand means – and about who gets to give it.

Becoming a Story Doctor: Lucy O’Hagan in conversation with Hamish Wilson

Balint Society seminar

Sunday 19 April 2026

11am-12.30pm New Zealand time; 9am-10.30am Sydney/Melbourne time

More information here

Zoom link here

Rural WONCA conference Wellington

Saturday 11th April 12.30-1.30pm

Lunchtime performance one woman show. For conference registrants only.

Palmerston North Library

Friday 13th March 7pm

In conversation.

RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE

Aspiring Conversations Wānaka

SORRY SOLD OUT!

Sunday 29th March 11am

Healthcare in Crisis.

Our healthcare system is in critical condition. Doctors raise the alarm about staff shortages and burnout. Patients share stories of long wait times and delayed diagnoses. Building new hospitals and patching up old ones is expensive. What can we do to reach a healthier and fairer future for Aotearoa New Zealand?

Rob Campbell is former chair of Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, and Chancellor of Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau (Auckland University of Technology). Lucy O’Hagan spent 20 years as a GP and practice owner in Wānaka and her first book, Everything but the Medicine is out now. An expert in wider public health issues, Boyd Swinburn is Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at Auckland University.

Info and tickets here