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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.

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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

Reflections on Covid Christmases

As we approach the end of another year, it’s worth reflecting on Christmases affected by Covid-19 and what we might learn from them as clinicians and as people.
25 November 2023
3 mins read
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Electioneering and the RCGP Election Manifesto

Billed as ‘seven steps to save general practice and safeguard our NHS’, the manifesto reflects the policies the RCGP believes political parties need to take on board to ‘save’ general practice ahead of the next general election. Nada Khan does some unpicking...
20 November 2023
5 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

Sexual safety in the workplace

For something that should be completely unthinkable in our workplace, it is a disturbing truth that sexual misconduct is rife within the NHS. Nada Khan investigates.
10 November 2023
5 mins read
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Patiently waiting

When we talk of doctor and patient, we instinctively see both as very separate groups, but stripped back of language and assumed meaning, there ultimately sit two human beings in the same space. The person sitting in the chair telling their story
9 November 2023
3 mins read

Book review: Habitual Ethics?

As a GP, do you consider yourself the living embodiment of practical virtue? Or just an ordinary doctor struggling to do a decent job for as many hours as the day provides? You could argue that there is really no great difference
4 November 2023
5 mins read
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