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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.

Book review: 36 Hours

"Last night, after the three hours it took to get to the toilet and back, to change the bed, to negotiate the medication, he told me I’m very irritating." - Karen Chumberley reviews Fiona Mason's 36 Hours, a reflection on the last
8 January 2023
3 mins read
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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

Scientists after all

...despite all that science has to tells us in general terms about people and how to care for them, it is often harder to pin down on specifics...
5 January 2023
5 mins read
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Addressing discrimination among medical students in primary care

Over the last 50 years society has become progressively diverse as the needs of the population continue to change. As these diversities become increasingly recognised, it has resulted in differences becoming more pronounced and the possibility of discrimination thus becoming more prominent.
3 January 2023
3 mins read
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ChatGPT: what it means for general practice

ChatGPT is an online program allowing a user to ask any question and receive an answer, which can be incredibly detailed, in under 10 seconds. However, what does this mean for primary care? Richard Armitage investigates and puts ChatGPT to the test,
2 January 2023
2 mins read

Avoiding Death

The idea of excess deaths is of course just an attempt to make sense of what’s happening in a complex system with a view to allocating resources appropriately.
30 December 2022
3 mins read

A radioactive chalice?

Seeing patients once and referring them for imaging offers advantages to busy GPs and busy patients alike, but given the tendency of any test to throw up results of unclear significance, wouldn’t we simply be delegating the management of uncertainty en masse
28 December 2022
3 mins 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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It’s the sun wot won it

Occasionally, the worlds of media and healthcare can clash in a way that has pronounced consequences in the real world. Whilst the media may intend to inform, they invariably end up influencing a somewhat frenzied, albeit predictable, behaviour in the public.
21 December 2022
3 mins read

3 years on…

Today is my third “Cancerversary..." I am so lucky to be working in a great practice. With a supportive team – clinicians who truly care. But I just don’t know if this is enough...
14 December 2022
4 mins read
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Internet shutdowns: a threat to public health

Internet shutdowns are government interventions motivated to intentionally disrupt access to, and the use of, online information and communication systems. These measures pose a novel and growing threat to various elements of global public health.
12 December 2022
2 mins read
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There’s something about menopause…

We attend reputable GP-training events and feel confident that the training delivered will be up to date and relevant. And yet, there's something about menopause where all this somehow falls apart.
1 December 2022
6 mins read
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Mind the gate on the way out

In my early years of practice, I thought the very act of named diagnosis was a victory. As time has progressed ... I have grown to realise that this semantic box does not in itself contain the cure, and sometimes, can contain
25 November 2022
2 mins read

Papering over the cracks

"On my clinical days, I focus on the micro-level of health care. Thinking about the macro-level of things, including the politics of it all, tends to send my heart rate up when I am in the thick of clinical practice. Am I
24 November 2022
3 mins read
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