Elspeth Frascatore

Guest writer

Elspeth Frascatore an emergency medicine physician and the founder of Doctors Stand Up For Vaccination, a grassroots initiative by the doctors of Aotearoa New Zealand supporting vaccination for Covid-19. www.doctors-stand-up-for-vaccination.com

Act Party leader David Seymour has called for most of NZ’s Covid-19 restrictions to be dropped (Image: Getty Images; additional design by Tina Tiller)

‘We feel unseen’: An Auckland ED doctor responds to calls to ditch Covid restrictions

Without some restrictions, we are overwhelmed. Not just 'the healthcare system is overwhelmed' but we, your nurses and doctors, are overwhelmed.

By Elspeth Frascatore | 1st March, 2022

Image: Tina Tiller

How to open a positive conversation with your vaccine hesitant friend

What drives you? What are your core values? Once that mutual respect is established, we can start to get somewhere. A doctor writes.

By Elspeth Frascatore | 21st October, 2021