Clicky

Latest

A Thorny Issue

3 July 2026
Despite John Fry's adage that says common diseases are most frequent, I encountered many rare conditions during my thirty years of practice. This medical rarity just happened to involve my daughter’s foot and occurred after I retired.
Read More

Psychedelics: think it’s a good idea, doc?

We cannot prescribe psychedelic therapy. We cannot refer to it. We cannot recommend it. But our patients are already seeking it out, often without guidance, and increasingly without us.
2 July 2026

Opinion and Clinical

Correct, but not reassuring

A few days later, I was told that the tax had been paid ...Problem solved... Then another letter arrived. A timely reflection on reassurance.
27 June 2026
·

In desperate need of idleness

Idleness encompasses all the things that enable us to flourish as individuals and as a society but get shunted into our own time (what’s left of it). Healthcare workers need time to think, to read, to recover.
26 June 2026
·

Cancer as a form of sociology edgework

Edgework is a concept that describes situations where people exist close to the edge between life and death, safety and danger and must use significant skill to navigate their way across, and survive, this edge. It helps us see the patient as
25 June 2026
4

Making sense together after algorithms

Imagine a man in his 30s presenting with palpitations. Before attending, he has used a symptom checker, reviewed his smartwatch data, and read discussions online. He arrives with a list of possibilities — anxious but also informed.
22 June 2026

Book Reviews

·

Exhibition review: A Second Life by Tracey Emin

"Emin, through her art, has converted the chaos generated from sexual abuse and poverty in early life into a beautiful lens for us to understand ourselves and our patients better." - Hector Watson and Elizabeth Walton review Tracey Emin's A Second Life, exhibiting at Tate
3 mins read
1

Book review: Gloria Don’t Speak

"This book gives Gloria a voice. It needs to be read widely by anyone involved in the care of people with learning disability or neurodiversity." - Peter Lindsay reviews Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps
3 mins read

International

·

Gatekeepers at the exit

General practitioners, while bearing uncertainty about the need for specialist intervention, sustain continuous and comprehensive relationships with patients. I would argue that super-aged societies also require gatekeepers at the exit from medicine.
2 mins read

Long Read

We need to talk about dying

"Taking dying and death out of the solely medical domain, becoming joint partners in caring for the dying patient in the broadest sense, facilitates personalised and holistic care, and creates opportunity for a more relational and compassionate interaction ..."
15 mins read

Trainees and students

BJGP Interviews

BJGP Interviews Podcast

BJGP TV | Research

BJGP News and Editorial Comment

1 2 3 … 15