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Arts

Arts/Random

Just one more thing (A short poem By Dr. P. Doff.)

here’s no appointments, and I’ve waited weeks, To show you my piles, and rash on my cheeks, I’ve also had chest pains, for the last year, And there’s just one more thing, now that I’m here!

29 January 2023
2 mins read
1
Arts

Reflections on remote consulting

I am trying to patch a clinical web over your problem ...Empathetically. Communicating blind. Flushing the darkness systematically with questions ...That dredge the deep... A poem by Rebecca Quinn.

6 January 2023
1 min read
AiT/Arts/International/Stories

The Long Road

My love for those who could not help themselves was fuelled by passion,
As medicine became my way of helping them with care and compassion.

23 December 2022
14 mins read
1
Arts/Opinion/Research/Undergraduate

Primary care since John Fry: a research odyssey (The Royal Society of Medicine John Fry Prize winner)

The winning submission of the Royal Society of Medicine John Fry Prize by Salwa Ahmad.

9 November 2022
25 mins read
Arts/Coronavirus

Creative long COVID: poems of lived experience

Mark Pearson and colleagues present a number of powerful poems submitted by participants of long COVID support groups exploring their experience of long COVID.

19 October 2022
25 mins read
Arts/Random

Perhaps I did: a poem

'I hoped it would be all right...' is a temptation to be resisted, leading to the final bind the researcher find him/herself in as it dawns that all is not all right.

20 September 2022
1 min read
Arts/BJGP Long Read/Stories

Diagnosing Faria

Alexandre Dumas’s 19th century French novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, doesn’t usually make the list of standard medical texts but perhaps it should not be so readily dismissed. It captures the spirit of an age when medicine was undergoing a revolution...

18 September 2022
8 mins read
1
Arts

The Milk of Dreams, Biennale Arte 2022: A Surreal Awakening

"It’s the best show we have seen in years ... " — Polyester elephants on 6 foot plinths, grotesque life-sized cloth dolls, and robotic snakes — it's the return of the Venice Biennale, reviewed by Will Norman

28 August 2022
10 mins read
Arts/Stories

Tea at 4:30, with milk?

‘Yes dad, a little dash like normal.’ I never knew how to reply. Was he asking a question? Was he just making a statement, did he even want milk in it? Had he forgotten how he had his tea? I never knew

13 August 2022
6 mins read
Arts

A lockdown literary festival in medicine

During the UK pandemic lockdowns of 2020–21 an online literary festival was held by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, and the talks are freely available online. Andrew Papanikitas invites readers online and back in time!

6 August 2022
6 mins read
1
Arts/Bright Ideas and Innovation

Found poetry: a creative approach to illuminate the findings of qualitative research

Found poetry is created by taking words and phrases from other sources and reframing them - the literary equivalent of a collage. Jessica Watson and Fiona Hamilton demonstrate how the approach can be applied to qualitative research to capture and share experiences

30 July 2022
7 mins read
AiT/Arts/Book review/International

The Last King of Scotland: Using a movie to explore family medicine residents’ understanding of professionalism

Movies allow health care professionals to immerse themselves in “near-true” experiences that challenge their values and principles. Beatrice Khater and Bassem Saab discuss using The Last King of Scotland in family medicine training at the American University of Beirut

29 June 2022
7 mins read
Arts/Opinion/Stories

Heroes with bifocals

Ben Hoban reflects on general practice as a 'Hero's journey,' but argues that this must be reconciled with the patient narrative. Don your narrative bifocals!

8 June 2022
5 mins read
Arts/Random

Ode to my GP colleagues

Hannah Weston-Simons shares an ode to her GP colleagues

31 May 2022
2 mins read
Arts/Book review

Book review: Of human kindness: What Shakespeare teaches us about empathy

David Jeffrey suggests that medical teachers will find this book a source of inspiration in encouraging students to engage in empathic relationships with patients and colleagues.

29 May 2022
2 mins read
Arts/Bright Ideas and Innovation/Stories

The right write rite

Are you a healthcare professional looking for a creative community of writers? Neil Wilson introduces the Society of Medical Writers

30 April 2022
6 mins read
AiT/Arts/Opinion

This is Going to Hurt: Reflections for medical training

Yathu Maheswaran reflects on what TV 'This is going to hurt' might teach medical trainees

7 April 2022
7 mins read
Arts

TV review: This is Going to Hurt

Giles Dawnay reviews the TV adaption of Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt.

20 March 2022
6 mins read
1
Arts/Opinion

Understanding family life at the margins: Reflections on Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apu’ trilogy

John Launer reflects that Pather Panchali is a masterpiece in its own right but there are particular reasons why GPs might want to find time to watch it. Few other movies show such a profound understanding of family life among people living

19 March 2022
5 mins read
AiT/Arts/Opinion

Operatic reflections: Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, #MeToo, & families in primary care.

John Launer muses on what Mozart's Magic Flute can teach us about family medicine

15 January 2022
6 mins read
2
Arts

The Thirty-Nine Steps, peptic ulcer disease and Sick Heart River.

Today’s younger generation enjoy Harry Potter and Roald Dahl’s books. John Brooks takes us back to the days of John Buchan’s spy adventures, and tells us a little of Buchan's remarkable life and medical history.

25 October 2021
6 mins read
Arts

Arts review. Clouds of Glory: Turner at the Tate Britain

The Tate Britain has re-opened! Roger Jones advises us not to miss the Turner Exhibition - maybe life's getting good again!

5 June 2021
6 mins read
Arts

Film review: Bending the Arc

We might feel we have had a terrible year. Most of the world have had it much worse. Nathaniel Aspray reviews an inspirational film about the origins and early years of Partners In Health, an internationally renowned health charity.

20 February 2021
5 mins read
Arts

An Address to Diagnostics in Robert Burns’ Poetry

Olivia Baker brings us a special Burns' Night report on Robbie Burns lesser known career as a medical commentator.

25 January 2021
9 mins read
Arts

A Christmas reflection

This Christmas let us join Professor Deborah Swinglehurst and her husband, Nicholas Edwards, as they present a Schubert lied that they have arranged for guitar and voice.

25 December 2020
1 min read
Arts

Poetry in practice

Two GPs reflect on the impact poetry has had on their practice and how it fits into their lives.

28 June 2020
7 mins read
Arts/Coronavirus

These are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS

The publication of this new anthology of poems by NHS staff could not have come at a more apposite time. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the vital role of the NHS and the dedication of its staff in both community and hospital

4 June 2020
6 mins read
3
Arts

All The Little Lights: child sexual exploitation laid bare

We reviewed All the Little Lights in the March 2019 BJGP. A new production is on 12-17th August at the Tristan Bates Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe Season. Lucy Mabbitt, one of the actors and co-producers in the three hander

27 June 2019
3 mins read
Arts

Poems for Doctors: a video

  Written by Lesley Morrison. This year, for the fourth year, all Scottish medical graduates were gifted Tools of the Trade, the little pocket sized book of poetry published by the Scottish Poetry Library and intended to provide support for new doctors

18 September 2018
2 mins read
Arts/Opinion

Heroes: general practice and Karpman’s triangle

Living in a different culture is exciting and fascinating. But living in Bahrain we do miss “culture” in its other sense. There is a magnificent National Theatre, usually empty, putting on just a few touring shows a year. The nearest opera house

5 October 2016
7 mins read
2
Arts

The importance of self care for GPs: tackling burnout through comedy

Ahmed Z Kazmi is a doctor and stand-up comedian. If you would like to see his show ‘Doctor in the House’ he will be performing at Brighton Fringe 20-24th May 2016, Hollywood Fringe 19th-26th June 2016 and Edinburgh Fringe Festival 4-14th August 2016.

19 May 2016
6 mins read
Arts/International/Random

Desperately seeking Plato

We were in Athens with a couple of hours to kill. Acropolised out, too early for Ouzo. We had seen Socrates’ jail cell (almost certainly apocryphal).  We had seen the remains of Aristotle’s Lyceum, lovingly excavated. We had felt the weight of

17 May 2016
5 mins read
1
Arts/Opinion

RCGP Conference 2015: Stephen Bergman on good patient care

Stephen Bergman is a doctor, novelist and playwright. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Medical Humanities and Ethics at New York University Medical School. His book, The House of God, published in 1978, is firmly established in medical culture

2 October 2015
8 mins read
Arts/Clinical

BJGP Book Review: Out of Chaos Comes a Dancing Star

Out of Chaos Comes a Dancing Star: Notes on Professional Burnout by Chris Ellis. OpenBooks Press, 2014, PB, 95pp, £18, http://www.lastoutpost.info This book review was written by Ami Sweetman and was in the April 2015 issue of the BJGP. The author of this book has a fellowship

24 April 2015
4 mins read
Arts/Opinion

Review: A Fortunate Man

Professor Roger Jones is editor of the British Journal of General Practice. A Fortunate Man: the story of a country doctor. John Berger and Jean Mohr. Canongate, London, 2015 First published in 1967, this is one of those must-read general practice books, essential for

9 February 2015
5 mins read
3
Arts/Clinical

Robodoc will see you now…

Elinor Gunning is an academic GP and UCL Clinical Teaching Fellow (@EJGun) “So, in the future, can we just replace GPs with a diagnostic robot?” Is it just me, or do other GPs hear this question a lot? Often it’s more commonly

9 February 2015
3 mins read
2
Arts

Review: The Possibilities are Endless

Euan Lawson (@euan_lawson) is the Deputy Editor, BJGP. In 2005, Edywn Collins had a brain haemorrhage. There’s no gentle intro to this film; it is immersive as we are plunged into a fragmentary sequence of memories, images and sounds. There’s footage of Helmsdale, the

2 February 2015
4 mins read
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