Women’s health

Press, 23 October 1984, Page 11

Women’s health

“Well Woman,’’ a series of four programmes from the 8.8. C. with information and advice on the special health needs of women, presented by Dr Miriam Stoppard, can be heard on the radio National programme, from today until Friday, at 9.25 a.m. Dr Miriam Stoppard is a young doctor who is also a wife and mother. She talks to women with the authority of medical training and experience yet with the intimacy of shared sisterhood. Her explanations of menstruation, the menopause, cervical smears and other procedures for women, and the major gynaecological operations, include interviews with patients and health workers.

f VIEWERS’ I I VIEWS I

Complaints about ‘Starquest’ Sir,—l am not in the habit of writing letters to the editor but after viewing the ' final of Television New Zealand’s “Starquest” I feel compelled to complain. I viewed most of the prelimary rounds of this programme and was very happy with the talent for the most part. The judges, if I may be so bold or reckless as to describe them as such, seemed to me to be ill equipped for the job. The points were mostly awarded in reverse; the better the voice and presentation the lower the marks. In this way the panel managed to eliminate the best before they could reach the final. Of the final itself, the five people in my living room scored the competitors al- ■ most the reverse to the panel’s scores. We were all of the opinion that the two best marks should have gone to the young female ■ vocal duo and the young 1 woman who played the vio- ; lin country style. The evenI tual winner we felt was i vocally so weak he was almost a fortnight, in fact without his hands we may very well never have heard him at all. Anything I may write here to describe the performances of Ray Woolf and Yolande Gibson may be seen to be libellous. — .Yours, etc., I. ANDERSON.