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Lessons from Bronze Age Greece for modern practice

The links between my passion for Bronze Age Greece and working in modern-day practice have never felt tangible, until I recently took time to reflect. Look close enough and you’ll find the threads of history woven throughout medicine and, like all history,
27 December 2023
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Alone: General Practice

...while the risk of bear attacks or frostbite is substantially lower than in the popular namesake television series, GP trainees face a range of similar challenges as their TV counterparts – isolation, uncertainty, a steep learning curve, and genuine fear.
21 December 2023
4 mins read

This Poem

This poem by Kathleen Wenaden is the one she doesn't want to write. It is one that 'needs to be written, deep down, lived'.
19 November 2023
1 min read

Compassion Fatigue

In this poem Kathleen Wenaden considers compassion fatigue, a topic of some importance to GPs. When faced with 'an urge for fixing, for making better', is there really 'nothing left to give'?
12 November 2023
1 min read

I Would Like to Talk About Why Life is so Unequal

In her poem, Kathleen Wenaden describes the inequality she sees in her Hackney practice. She considers too burnout and the strain of working in general practice. But is there nevertheless some positivity to be found here?
31 October 2023
1 min read
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Housing letters – the dilemma (a poem)

How many of us allow ourselves the possibility that from our vantage point as general practitioners, we may have had our focus so sharpened by years of walking alongside our patients that we might see the benefit of a letter where bland
14 June 2023
1 min read

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
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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
7 mins read
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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
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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
3 mins read
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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
3 mins read

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
3 mins read
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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
2 mins read

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
2 mins read

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
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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
3 mins read
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