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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.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

In relying on a limited and necessarily technical professional vocabulary, we often deny ourselves precisely those tools which would help us understand and treat our patients’ difficulties, and indeed our own, muses Ben Hoban
2 September 2023
2 mins read
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What is the right response to COVID?

Some of us will welcome this opportunity to shine a light onto the events that took place in the early stages of the pandemic.  But what is the right way to look at our response to COVID, and what’s happening in other
30 August 2023
6 mins read

How to make a decision

It seems unlikely that these things can be reduced to a few simple bullet points, and yet, it’s hard to resist the allure of the headlines, with their subtext that the universe obeys a hidden code, and that if we only pay
27 August 2023
3 mins read
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‘We want them infected’ by Jonathan Howard

But being on one pole of a restrictions-versus-protections continuum is a long way from swallowing undiluted anti-vax Kool-Aid, isn’t it? ... Surely, being lukewarm on masking doesn’t mean you’re going to deny the evidence on vaccines?
23 August 2023
5 mins read
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Book review: Understanding Allergy

"Understanding Allergy is a book that I think will have a profound effect on my practice as a GP. It is packed full of interesting facts but crucially, it also does exactly what it says on the tin — it helps you
19 August 2023
6 mins read
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Rewiggling General Practice

Tim Sanders views the “rewiggling” of the Swindale Beck in the Lake District as a metaphor for a need to nurture and cherish core aspects of generalism, continuity and relationship-based care within the role of the GP
18 August 2023
2 mins read
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Facing both ways

General Practice, then, shares the values of both the dinner date and the mobile phone, and this is reflected in the way patients consult differently depending on context, preferring ease of access for simple acute problems and continuity of care for complex
16 August 2023
3 mins read
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The white screen of death is back again?

Nigel Masters has a déjà vu experience as he looked onto the ‘White screen’ of a newly registered patient and finds empty allergy fields, problem lists, consultations and immunisation screens.
14 August 2023
1 min read

Codes

Clinical codes are of course created by the machines’ human lackeys, but sometimes betray a way of thinking that is hard to relate to.  Ben Hoban muses on how we record clinical consultation data.
2 August 2023
3 mins read

So what is a pathway anyway?

The term 'pathway' is commonly used within the NHS to describe the sequence of steps and services involved in a patient's care. While ‘pathway’ may be familiar and well-understood among healthcare professionals, this is far from the case with the public.
31 July 2023
3 mins read

How to say goodbye at the end of life

This short book of handwritten text and drawings from life is useful for anyone involved with the process of dying and death. It takes less than 15 minutes to read the text and illustrations but you will probably want to read it
26 July 2023
1 min read

The Aboriginal definition of health

The service I work in was set up by the local Aboriginal community, because they were being poorly served by the health services that existed at the time. Part of this was that the options offered seemed to operate on a narrow,
21 July 2023
2 mins read
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