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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.

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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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