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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.

Extended roles and special interests

It’s worth examining the reasons in the health system for supporting special interests. Are we playing Jenga with the health system, continually removing building blocks to replace obvious deficiencies in a rickety structure? Or are we enhancing the generalist, patient-centred care that
23 January 2024
2 mins read
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Discontinuity of care and patient safety

We know (from that research) that higher continuity is associated with lower mortality rates, reduced healthcare costs, higher patient satisfaction, safer prescribing and reduced hospitalisations.  But what about patient safety incidents? Nada Khan investigates
15 January 2024
5 mins read
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Jean Baudrillard against the Post Office

Over 4 million people watched the first episode of Mr Bates against the Post Office when it screened on New Year’s Day. And suddenly things started to happen. David Misselbrook reflects on what this might mean for British medicine...
10 January 2024
2 mins read
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Grieving for a lost Christmas cake…

In a world of immediacy and impermanence, my two cards and lonely box of chocolates earn a particular significance. They emphasise the humanity that is still possible in General Practice despite the need to count, measure, and capture everything – a connection
7 January 2024
3 mins read

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood, the 2019 book (with a new 2023 afterword) by seasoned journalist John Carreyrou, offers a deep dive into the dramatic rise and fall of Theranos, a once-promising biotech startup in the US. Self-admitted 'health-tech' enthusiast Richard Armitage reviews the book.
6 January 2024
2 mins read

Waiting for results

‘The doctor wants you to come back to discuss your results’. That’s what the receptionist said when she called me. ‘Can you tell me anything more?’ I asked, my body instantly awash with bilious panic. ‘No, sorry’ she said, before scheduling the
5 January 2024
3 mins read
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Book review: Pain: The Ultimate Mentor

Pain: The Ultimate Mentor is a deeply insightful book that reshapes our understanding of pain and its role in our lives, offering a fresh and practical perspective on managing pain ...
30 December 2023
1 min read

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
5 mins read
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Introducing Jacob: The quantum AI GP chatbot

In a parallel reality, and in a distant multiverse and metaverse, BJGP Life has, in a Christmas charity raffle won a chance to interview Schrodinger’s Prime Minister (PM) a self confessed Artificial Intelligence (AI) nerd himself, the Right Hon Richard Turpin.
24 December 2023
4 mins read

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

If you’re in the market for a short read to lift your spirits at Christmas, Dickens’ classic really delivers. It is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser described in deliciously grim terms...
23 December 2023
2 mins read
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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

Normalising exploitation

I left a job today. It was a good job with good people, which is always hard. It’s so much easier to leave when the interpersonal environment is toxic. It’s difficult when colleagues are deeply collegiate, but the structure is exploitative.
17 December 2023
4 mins read

Medwise.ai, and what AI in general practice will really look like

Richard Armitage investigates Medwise.ai, an 'AI tool' that claims to empower practitioners with informed decision-making, adherence to guidelines, quick access to answers, and a reduction in burden on GPs for supervision. But are these claims anywhere near the reality?
13 December 2023
4 mins read

Being human

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to download the latest updates in your sleep and go to work knowing that you were fully NHS-compliant, and without having to dodge any of those awkward questions about Segawa Syndrome? It certainly feels as
11 December 2023
3 mins read
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Workload transfer in the NHS: The Great British Dump

nappropriate transfer of workload can go both ways, and it can feel highly frustrating for GPs and hospital specialists alike.  But as patient care becomes increasingly fragmented, thinking locally about how to improve collaborative care might help build back those relationships across
8 December 2023
6 mins read
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