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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
On the Record
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Heidi’s death matters as much as her life

OPINION: How New Zealand deals with cancer funding is heartbreaking.

NBR columnist Rachel Smalley speaks with Maria Slade.

Dr Heidi MacRae was 51 years old when she died. My age. The two of us had joked that 1971 was a good vintage. 

I first came into contact with Heidi a year ago, when she emailed me at my storytelling project, The Medicine Gap. She was a GP, a practice owner, chair of Comprehensive Care PHO, and a

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