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Wellington correspondent Virginia McMillan arrived at New Zealand Doctor one story at a time, as she ventured into freelance writing after a career in newspaper reporting, subediting and editing. She got into health journalism via the notorious (now-defunct) business weekly, The Independent, where she covered the primary healthcare reforms of the early 2000s. She soon became a regular contributor of news and award-winning feature articles, phasing out other roles – such as journalism tutoring – to devote herself to the magazine.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
