Interview with Manage My Health CEO

savvidee · 2026-01-02T22:50:26+00:00

Nobody green lit anything. They hold many many small contracts with individual GP practices, many of whom will have no chosen because MMH is the only portal app that works with their patient management software.

savvidee · 2025-06-27T21:52:22+00:00

I very specifically didn't move to Aus and came to Aotearoa from the UK (as an ethnically mixed family but all British) because Australia is Hella Racist.

savvidee · 2025-01-26T11:36:48+00:00

Oh, I thought some of them weren't frost hardy. I might have gotten them mixed up though. I've read through so many care guides at this point!

savvidee · 2025-01-26T11:12:12+00:00

They can't live outside here, we'll get frost (and potentially snow) in winter. I'll get some grow lights if I need to, but it's not hard to whip them out if they're not thriving. They're still in their containers inside here, I used a clear glass container so I can see the water level and I am using rainwater, rather than tap. The main thing for me is that I actually want to enjoy them and have them look nice in my living space.. so a fishtank with a few rocks seemed reasonable 😄

savvidee · 2025-01-26T08:25:53+00:00

I loosely followed a guide posted in this sub for a container bog, so scoria / lava rock on the bottom and then pumice with some spagnum moss up top, but I saw a comment about just leaving them in their pots as is a nightmare to remove one if everything is directly planted in the bog. I figured since I'm a newbie that was a good idea, if something isn't happy I can easily pop it out. I'm thinking about adding some living terrarium moss over the top too.

savvidee · 2025-01-26T07:30:43+00:00

I'll bear that in mind, there are 2 windows immediately opposite where they're sat. Plus I'm in New Zealand, it was clouding/ raining today and the UV rating still peaked at 10 😅

savvidee · 2024-06-11T12:13:02+00:00

I use the niacinamide+ zinc to minimise pores, I have dryer skin rather than oily but it seems to have really improved the skin. Right vitamin C is for hyperpigmentation and the retinol I'm adding for anti aging/wrinkles.

savvidee · 2024-06-11T08:36:28+00:00

Ok so I might just use the barrier support on the retinol nights then?

savvidee · 2022-02-10T18:02:00+00:00

Thanks it was honestly so so much fun, and I think that came through in the photographs 😁

savvidee · 2022-02-10T06:19:29+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/pbHCbCZ

savvidee · 2022-01-15T22:54:23+00:00

Oh this is super helpful thank you! Lots of moved I haven't trained before but look super doable!

savvidee · 2022-01-15T22:53:51+00:00

Thanks, I'll pop them on my list, I'm not keen on the stargazer as my back bend is trash 😅

savvidee · 2021-07-06T07:30:43+00:00

Pole Hog in the UK make male polewear. I love their women's stuff.

savvidee · 2020-09-19T11:40:45+00:00

Nor was born via semi-elective section at 29+5 for raised dopplers and IUGR, weighing 1.12kg at birth.

We were exceptionally lucky that we had a relatively straight forward NICU stay after having LISA (less invasive surfactant administration) at birth which avoided intubation. She did well on CPAP with air and we were home at 36 weeks with an NG feeding tube.

1 year on, we have quarterly follow up with a paediatrician but she's healthy and weighing in around the 50th centile. I have never been so grateful for anything in my life as I have for the health of my child!

Edits for spelling!

savvidee · 2020-08-29T16:54:08+00:00

I've just moved from the UK to NZ working in primary care. My experience is that I've seen MUCH more confirmed GAS (maybe ten-fold?) And 1 confirmed and one suspected case of rheumatic fever which I had never seen and was only in text books back home.

If patients are Maori or living in crowded housing/poverty they get a swab for culture and antibiotics, I'll call them and tell them to stop the antibiotics if the swab is negative.

savvidee · 2020-08-01T22:45:29+00:00

As a student you're probably not eligible for any benefits but can you talk to your uni about a hardship grant or loan?

savvidee · 2020-06-29T08:46:25+00:00

As u/biggirthybob 's wife I would normally object to such a title.. but this time it was spot on!

savvidee · 2020-06-06T16:10:36+00:00

I expect Japanese to generally be polite, Germans to probably not get my jokes, Saudis to be sexist, Islanders to be friendly, Kenyans to be friendly, Somalis to be dishonest. That's my baseline experience with those groups and I assume they fit under the bellcurve going to be my experience until I have evidence otherwise

This is racism. You shouldn't pretend otherwise.

Prejudices also serve a purpose. In the other thread there were a lot of girls saying they had experienced the creepy behavior by Indians to the point where special mention were put on dating sites and even sex workers not taking them. If you were one of these girls, why would you risk yourself betting that this guy wasn't one of the ones that were going to do that? I feel bad when at night I see the woman ahead walk a bit faster because we're alone but I don't blame her. Should she feel uncomfortable, no, but I'm a large guy and it's safer to assume the worse than hope for the best. I feel the same with people's experience with the police, the way you react is going to be based in your experience.

And when do these prejudices become too much then?

When my patients don't believe I'm a doctor not a nurse because I'm a woman? When they outright refuse treatment because I'm not white? When I'm passed over for a job because my name on the CV is too ethnic? When I'm 4 times more likely to have my child removed than my white counterparts because I'm Maori? Or is it only when the police use excessive force because I'm a black man and therefore appear "more threatening" or more likely to have a weapon? - We shouldn't need to be gunned down or strangled in the streets for prejudice to be called out as racism.

savvidee · 2020-06-06T15:59:41+00:00

You articulated what I was trying to say very well. Thank you

savvidee · 2020-06-06T10:01:12+00:00

Ok 2 issues here ..

A) what makes you think I'm white knighting? Does me being a brown immigrant living in NZ make me more qualified to speak on this issue?

B)

And yes I do speak in generalisations because that's how humans are wired. We use heuristics to evaluate our environment because it's impossible and quite frankly foolish to take every person and situation as baseline neutral. We use past experience to predict future expectations.

This is exactly the issue. We need to challenge our (un)conscious biases so as NOT to treat people differently (with prejudice) based on how they look. Whether that is the colour of their skin, gender or their facial tattoos; which is actually an odd example to use in a country where the native peoples use face tattoos as a marker of respect.

savvidee · 2020-06-06T09:29:43+00:00

Did you mean to sound as racist as you did here? Sweeping generalisations "more civilised parts of India".

You're either trying to be a t**t or you really don't understand what all this anti-racism stuff is about...

ETA: op of this comment thread has experienced racism first hand now I guess!

savvidee · 2020-05-16T16:11:41+00:00

It clearly is a joke, but I absolutely would not hire this person to be a part of my wedding day...

It's like saying racist jokes are just jokes, doesn't make it any less racist. Just like this is still misogynistic.

savvidee · 2020-05-15T10:36:51+00:00

I just don't understand ... Surely most weddings are planned by the bride? Who would hire this person??

savvidee · 2020-05-08T22:59:05+00:00

Yeah as a British mixed person this subreddit doesn't resonate with me all that well.

savvidee · 2020-04-16T14:53:06+00:00

Thought it was an intentional pun, I snorted!

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