Solo mum to NZ’s best GP I NEVER DREAMED I’D BE A DOCTOR
Growing up with a father who was Rotorua’s longest-serving GP, there was one question Tawa Hunter always used to get asked: “Are you going to follow in your dad’s footsteps?”
But leaving school at 16 to work in retail before becoming a teenage mum put paid to ever answering it. Or so Tawa thought.
Thirty years on, the determined mother-of-five has just been recognised as Junior Doctor of the Year by the New Zealand Medical Council.
“I never considered being a doctor, ever!” Tawa tells the Weekly from her office in Rotorua Hospital.
“I really didn’t think that I was ever capable of being something like that and just kind of fumbled my way around a lot. I thought I might go and study drama,
