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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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Why barbers have ‘an edge’ on GPs

"When a patient who happens to be a barber comes to see me for a consultation, that is precisely what – and only what – he gets.  When I go to see my barber for a haircut, however, not only do I
23 January 2023
5 mins read
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Book review: Cut by Hibo Wardere

At six-years-of-age, Hibo Wardere was forcibly held down and brutally subjected to Type III female genital mutilation (FGM). This book tells her story, a riveting, personal, and candid account of her journey...
21 January 2023
1 min read

Be lucky

Ask yourself ‘Do I feel lucky?’ This often-misquoted line from Dirty Harry, said by Clint Eastwood in role, serves to introduce the notion of moral luck. Gratifyingly, we do not often find ourselves staring down the barrel of a violent cop wielding
20 January 2023
6 mins read
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General practice cannot be piecework

Piecework is advantageous for production where output volume is a reliable proxy for productivity and monitoring and incentivising output volume does not compromise quality. Lara Shemtob and colleagues argue this is inappropriate for general practice.
19 January 2023
5 mins read

Flag-waving and learning to dance

Ben Hoban suggests that GPs can keep track of more in the consultation by not worrying about keeping track of so much, but instead choosing what to focus on.
13 January 2023
3 mins read

A world without general practice

Tim Senior argues that without GPs we systemically remove the part of the health system that has researched and trained in handling relationships and complexity, and is capable of doing this well. We need to be able to describe what health systems
12 January 2023
2 mins read

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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