00:00:00
Is our health system broken in New Zealand? >> I Yes. >> The life stresses that we have are
00:00:08
causing such a rise in uh mental health issues, anxiety and depression and so we
00:00:13
see a lot of that and things that just need more than 15 minutes. This is such an outdated way of practicing. Actually,
00:00:20
we see so much more complex things in such a small amount of time and we're just trying to trying to survive. You
00:00:28
know, a lot of the times I think I hear a lot of they'll just give you a tablet.
00:00:31
I'm sick of just getting a medication or something like that. And it's really
00:00:35
mostly because we just don't have time to go through anything else through the
00:00:39
good lifestyle stuff, the eating, the sleeping, the seeing friends and all of that good stuff, exercise, all of that.
00:00:46
We sort of just assume that this person knows, okay, let's move on to the next
00:00:50
step because we only have six more minutes. The patient and the doctor each need to have some humanity and realize
00:00:57
that, you know, this is why the days are going late and we're trying to give
00:01:01
everyone an extra 5 minutes. >> Is our health system broken in New Zealand?
00:01:06
>> I Yes.
