NEW ZEALAND

Lynda Gray, General Practitioner 
	(offers Gynae services such as BC, pap smears etc)
	Shirley Medical Centre 
	11 Marshlands Road 
	Shirley, Christchurch
	Phone: 03 385 3149
	Description: Lynda & the nurses have never commented my weight
	(even to check if I'm happy the way I am, and definitely no
	weighing unless requested by me/required for dose calculations),
	and they are particularly good about making smear tests
	comfortable & as easy as possible - no gowns, fresh warm sheets
	& speculum! Seating is either bench-style or decent size chairs,
	with the examination table being a solid ledge built into the
	exam rooms (approx 2.5m long x 1m wide). -- Alice

Aurora Health Centre 
	265 King Edward Street
	South Dunedin
	Ph (+64 3) 455 0006
	All-woman medical practice consisting of five doctors, practice
	nurse, physiotherapist, counsellor - male patients welcome.
	Wonderful, wonderful doctors who do not advise deliberate weight
	loss unless it is absolutely necessary, and who do not regard
	"health" as a number on a scale.  Believe it or not, they
	actually listen to their patients!  A real breath of fresh air.
	I can't recommend them highly enough. -- Miche 

Lorraine Smith, GP
	Port Nicholson Medical Centre
	Taranaki Street, Wellington
	Telephone (04) 384-4315
	In the 10 years or so I've been seeing her, she's never once
	criticised me for my weight, asked to weigh me or suggested I
	diet and in fact recently agreed with me that diets don't work
	(I was there because I have had some rapid and unexplained
	weight gain in the last 12 months). -- Rachel Priebee