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Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017419

Description: A patient called Nancy arrives at Dr Dolly's surgery and says that although there is nothing wrong this week she has made a graph charting the chances she feels she has of catching a range of diseases and is looking for a second opinion. Dr Dolly smiles cheerfully but thinks 'Brilliant! The hypochondriacs' hypochondriac'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0023472

Description: The doctor demonstrates postures such as downward facing dog, dead dog, and sleeping dog. A woman asks if he's doing yoga, and he responds that they are 'ACC bureaucracy impersonations'. Refers to problems with the Accident Compensation Corporation, the sole and compulsory provider of accident insurance for all work and non-work injuries in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0017739

Description: Dr Hal and Dr Dolly are chatting over a social drink. Dr Hal comments that the drug companies are giving Pharmac a hard time and they each solemnly consider the worthiness and value of Pharmac, the New Zealand drug purchasing body. Dr Dolly eventually expresses an honest opinion when she reminds Dr Hal of 'those great giveaways we used to get'. Context - The lobby group for the US drug companies, PhRMA has launched a direct and vitriolic attack on Pharmac, the New Zealand drug purchasing body, TPPA-critic Professor Jane Kelsey said. Their submissions urges the US Trade Representative to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to tighten the intellectual property rules - and boost their profits in New Zealand. (Scoop 2 May 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014886

Description: Dr Dolly has solved the problem of their autocratic Practice Manager by enrolling her for a country service post in Balclutha. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016276

Description: Dr Hal recommends to a patient that she go easy on alcohol and cholesterol. The patient wonders if the doctor really means that as she usually gives him Scotch and home kill for Christmas, but is sure that the doctor knows best. Dr Hal realizes that he has been undone by his own hypocrisy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016076

Description: Dr Hal has discovered that by hiding under his desk as the patient leaves, the patient will think he is not there when she (or he) remembers something else she wanted to ask. He realizes that by this technique he can double his consultation fees. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017077

Description: Dr Dolly welcomes 'all you lucky GPs' aboard for election year and gives advice about how to escape the results of being made a political football by adopting the brace position. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016977

Description: Doctor Hal measures the height and weight of his stacks of paperwork and shrieks with despair saying 'as a mere GP there's nothing I can do about it'. His colleague Dr Dolly realizes that he is doing his annual February paperwork measurement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012693

Description: Dr Dolly embraces a fellow doctor. When Dr Hal asks her if the man has had bad news she says that the man is looking for a laboratory service. They watch sadly as he wanders into the wilderness (cactus to prove it). Refers to the lack of confidence that Auckland GPs have in the city's new laboratory testing provider, Labtests, complaining of problems with sample tracking and concerns over the competence of Labtests' staff. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017190

Description: Dr Dolly observes the devastation of Christchurch on television and falls into a philosophical reverie about the unfairness of fate. Context - The Christchurch earthquake 22 February 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016840

Description: Dr Hal is annoyed because he has to make his PHO merger submission immediately after a great summer holiday and he is burnt scarlet. Context - PHOs (Primary Health Organisations) are being merged in order to manage better on a restricted budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0017838

Description: Dr Hal reads in the 'NZ Doctor' that there is a high probability of being physically attacked by a patient at some time and we should plan to avoid it...' He is wearing a new 'NZ Music Tshirt' and thinks that because it has an image of a target on the front that maybe this is not such a good idea. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0017929

Description: Dr Hal tells Dr Dolly that the plan he has developed for if he is attacked in surgery is that he will ring her and then curl up into a ball. Context - Presumably a health and safety plan against attacks from patients. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0023961

Description: Dr Dolly is feeling good about the year 2013 in contrast to her patients in waiting room. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0023870

Description: The doctor ponders global warming as he describes his Christmas adventures. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024196

Description: Cartoon drawn for the 'New Zealand Doctor', on the theme of intimidating and highly efficient receptionists in medical practitioners' surgeries. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024195

Description: Cartoon drawn for the medical magazine, the 'New Zealand Doctor', satirising the intimidating aspect of some medical practitioners' receptionists, who terrify the doctors, let alone the patients. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024440

Description: A doctor comments on the new receptionist at his office. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024545

Description: A doctor comments on the new receptionist at his office. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024464

Description: Shows two people lying on the beach in the sun. One explains that the beautiful summer is perfect for escaping the conference he's supposed to be attending on melanoma. Refers to New Zealand's high rate of skin cancer, often the result of overexposure to the sun. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).