Dr Peter Hall

I’ve heard a lot of people described as narcissists lately, from politicians to bosses to relatives. This usually means the person is selfish, insecure and...

When does a difference become a disease? In what circumstances is difference a good thing? Should we expect people who are divergent to conform to...

We have some unfortunate terms in medicine and one of them is “heart failure”. It really suggests a terminal event when in fact it is...

The Covid-19 pandemic is not over, and unfortunately for many people their personal Covid-19 is not over either. Long Covid is blighting the lives of...

Humans and alcohol have been getting together for a long time. Presumably, the process of fermentation of starches was discovered accidentally, but it really took...

Covid clipped our wings, but people are travelling again bigtime. About half a million people depart New Zealand every month, many of them to tropical...

I was hoping to deliver some good news about ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in this column, but we are still stuck in a system...

We expect a lot of our necks. Not only do they have to balance a bowling ball on our shoulders for 16 hours a day,...

Early Greeks thought that illness was due to an imbalance of the four ‘humours’ – black bile, phlegm, blood and yellow bile. They also thought...

Recently I was working in a part of the South Island that seems to have a high prevalence of autoimmune disease (AD). I can honestly...