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BJGP Life

BJGP Life

The BJGP is the world-leading primary care journal. At BJGP Life we add multi-media comment and opinion for the primary care community.

Reluctant Poets of the Bowel

Hypertension rarely announces itself ... And dignity ... I have learnt, Is the first casualty ... Of a viral gastroenteritis
1 October 2026
1 min read

Fast food and fast healthcare

Industrial medicine operates on the basis of similar assumptions to fast food and industrial farming, viewing process and outcome as all-important but neglecting context. Ben Hoban explores a metaphor with added bite.
30 September 2026
6 mins read

When resilience becomes moral injury

A system that demands that clinicians distance themselves emotionally from patients and then applauds that distance as strength is not cultivating resilience; it is manufacturing moral injury.
28 September 2026
4 mins read

Social justice and golden rules

We know that there are some fundamental rights and wrongs in the human world... but It is easier to make good laws than to behave well. David Misselbrook reflects.
25 September 2026
3 mins read

When care feels solitary

The patient and I sat opposite each other. She brought her pain and her questions; I had a responsibility to respond. When little changed over many consultations, I began to feel alone with my own helplessness.
24 September 2026
2 mins read
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Whilst I am here

Somewhere along this odyssey ... A rumour must have spread ... That doctors know a bit of everything ... From eyelashes to raising the dead
21 September 2026
1 min read
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Staying on track

We wondered about how to balance the role of listener and witness with the inevitable duties of being agents of the medical system and the real risks of missing serious physical illness.
17 September 2026
3 mins read
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The computer will see you now

Yes, trainees will feel more comfortable learning in the AI realm, That is where many of us now live. Role play was always frightening and more so now.
16 September 2026
2 mins read

For those whose primary is to care

As the quiet hum of computers wake before the sun, May you have the conviction that your work is never in vain... Eugenia Lee raises an ode to general practice
9 September 2026
2 mins read

Building trellises and growing vines

We have built many trellises without first considering that how we go about this has a profound effect on the vine. By default, we have defined a good life as one that is simply as long and comfortable as possible...
7 September 2026
4 mins read

The acceptable stimulant

"One morning, while happily sipping my aromatic coffee, a colleague looked over and remarked, 'You do drink a lot of coffee'. I dismissed the comment immediately. 'Surely not,' I thought, 'I'm well within the recommended daily caffeine intake.' Or was I?"
3 September 2026
3 mins read
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Pebbles

She carries it over her shoulder, and must decide, does she take the heavy sack home and find a space in her little house for those pebbles? Or does she carry them over the hill and lay them by the ocean, walking
31 August 2026
1 min read

The meaning of joy

Joy is apparently not simply the passive absence of burnout, but a proactive presence of purpose, autonomy, safety, belonging, equity and camaraderie. Emilie Couchman explores the possibilities.
29 August 2026
5 mins read
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Reading the meter

On the other side of the desk was someone I could only describe as grey. I’m not talking about their clothes or hair, or even their skin colour, although in fact it was oddly difficult to put a finger on any of
24 August 2026
5 mins read

Boiling Point

In a poorly known car park, a drenched man fights for his life. Years of consumption have left his body on the brink.
20 August 2026
1 min read

Desire Paths in Patient Care

Desire paths in primary care, are those informal, patient-driven routes through services that emerge outside of prescribed systems. They highlight the importance of communication skills in shaping access and experience.
19 August 2026
1 min read
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Nine to Five

And yet, somehow, work — the thing that most adults spend the majority of their waking hours doing — often gets treated as an afterthought. A background detail.
18 August 2026
8 mins read

In Minor Keys: the 61st Venice Art Biennale

"Should countries whose leaders were indicted for war crimes be allowed to use the soft power of culture at the world’s biggest visual art festival?" – Will Norman reviews this year's controversy-laden Venice Art Biennale
15 August 2026
3 mins read
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