Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2016
Reform PHARMAC or people will die, melanoma survivor tells MPs
17 August 2016 - Leisa Renwick planned to spend Mother's Day last year with her family but ended up in Tauranga Hospital with abdomen pain.
She expected to get a diagnosis, a course of treatment and be sent home.
"I certainly didn't expect that within days I would be diagnosed with stage four melanoma and that my life expectancy would be measured in weeks rather than years," she recalled.
"I remember quite clearly the day the troupe of doctors marched in to give me the diagnosis.
