Dr Carol Shand: 5 decades championing women's health
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English - July 11, 2022 22:05 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dr Carol Shand has spent her professional life advocating for women's health. She was a GP in Wellington for 56 years and in that time devoted herself to fighting for change - to maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law reform, and the way sexual assaults are responded to. In 2008, she became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women's health. Carol Shand grew up on a farm in Kaikoura and attended Otago Medical School in 1958. It was there she met her Austrian born husband, Erich Geiringer, also a doctor, and they practiced together in Wellington for 34 years, where they raised their three children. Dr Carol Shand is now 83 and has just published a memoir.