The Puhi Kaiti Hauora Community Health Centre

This is where Brad spends his days here in Gisborne, the Puhi Kaiti Hauora Community Health Centre.  He works with four other physicians and will be joined by a fifth in October when another locum from Minnesota is scheduled to arrive.  He is looking forward to this since he'll finally be able to understand someone here.  Now many of you are probably wondering why he is having difficulty in this area since New Zealanders speak English, but as many of you know, he needs to be spoken to loudly and slowly, and the ladies in the clinic like to speak quickly.  And that along with the accent is just too much for him.

He came home today saying that he noticed that the nurses and patients kept laughing at him during the exams.  When he finally asked what was so funny, the nurse said it was so "cute" (her explicative) how he says "pee" instead of "piss" all the time.  I'm sure he'll learn the vernacular soon enough, but in the meantime it'll give the staff at the clinic something to laugh about.