Networking, connection and a little something unexpected
Date: Saturday 20th March
Time: 5.30 - 7pm
Location: Meet us in Level 5 foyer
Please join us at 5.30 in the level 5 Foyer for drinks and canapes.
For those who feel like a good laugh, we are lucky enough to have the wonderful Lucy O'Hagan and Glenn Colquhoun taking us on a wild ride around
what is both too big and too small to see in medicine at times - the unseen currents of the health system and the hidden anatomies of the consultation
itself. Through story-telling, poetry, song and performance you will be inspired, challenged and allowed to wonder at what might be possible in the
practice of medicine.
We will wrap up at 7pm where you will be free to head to whichever of the many Auckland dining options you have chosen.
Lucy is a GP, writer, performer, speaker, teacher and mentor. She has studied the social science of medicine, narrative practice and kaitiakitanga. Her book Everything But the Medicine explores the complex human stories in the consultation, the character 'doctor' and the idea of a story doctor.
Lucy is a columnist for NZ Doctor and in 2024 recorded audio stories and reflections written during the pandemic. Waiting for Covid is available on podcast platforms.
Lucy's one woman show with 32 characters, Inside the GP Consultation is currently touring New Zealand. More information on her website www.lucyohagan.com
Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and children's writer. His first collection The art of walking upright won the Jessie Mackay
best first book of poetry award at the 2000 Montana book awards. Playing God, his third collection, won the poetry section of the same awards in 2003 as well as the reader's choice award that year. He was awarded the Prize in modern letters in 2004 and a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard University in 2010. In 2012 he was part of the ‘Transit of Venus’ poetry exchange at the Frankfurt book fair and in 2014 represented New Zealand on the Commonwealth
Poets United poetry project which celebrated the Glasgow Commonwealth Games that year.
His latest collection of poetry The Ballad of Joe Taihape was published in 2026. He works as a GP in Horowhenua.
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