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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.

Compassion first

Nobody wants to be greeted or processed in an uncaring and clinical manner. Sue Thurlow suggests that our motto should be "Compassion First", not "Digital First".
15 October 2021
2 mins read

Shame: healthcare’s unmeasurable undertows

Shame, a near-universal accompaniment of human compromise, often generates major distress, yet rarely finds direct language. How, then, do doctors – now so often seen as ‘fixers’ – deal with such an elusive problem? Read David Zigmond's latest masterclass.
14 October 2021
9 mins read

General practice – a crisis of vision?

Has a reduction in face to face appointments meant a change of vision for UK General Practice? Richard Pratt argues that our vision is unchanged, it is our methods that have had to change.
12 October 2021
2 mins read

A multifactorial approach to improve immunity

The immune-system is complex and is interconnected with the central nervous and endocrine systems. Regina Ford discusses a wide range of scientific research that looks at diet, supplements, exercise, sleep quality and stress/mental health, to give us a holistic overview of health
6 October 2021
10 mins read

Problematic pandemic

Last year the Lancet predicted ‘Substantial increases in the number of avoidable cancer deaths in England’ as a result of diagnostic delays due to the pandemic in the UK. Jenny Stephenson discusses some of the issues involved.
5 October 2021
3 mins read

Unlearning resentment

Is the concept of the patient as an 'inconvenience' a pernicious aspect of the hidden curriculum of medical school and postgraduate training? Nathaniel Aspray tells us his story.
4 October 2021
2 mins read

No, we are not OK

Our current system is not OK. Day after day, my clinic is full of people struggling to cope with their mental health needs. So what is going wrong?
30 September 2021
3 mins read

Ensuring diversity in patient and public involvement in research

patients and public are now more involved in research via PPI groups. But PPI members tend to be white, middle-class and retired. The National Institute for Health Research has published recommendations re diversity and inclusion in PPI groups. Danielle Nimmons and colleagues
29 September 2021
3 mins read

The chaos of Covid in Myanmar

It’s hard to understand the actions of a leadership that attacks doctors and nurses at the peak of a pandemic, but that is what is happening in Myanmar ...
22 September 2021
9 mins read

Long COVID – supporting people through the quagmire

"Long Covid" presents as a constellation of symptoms that are debilitating, persistent and unexplained, often limiting patients' day-to-day activities. David Thompson and his colleagues describe a novel approach - the Optimal Health Programme - which they are now trialing for this condition.
17 September 2021
3 mins read

Revisiting Good Medical Practice

Why is the General Medical Council's ‘Good Medical Practice' like eating plate after plate of chips? No, it's not the first line of a joke - let Bhupinder Goraya explain all.
14 September 2021
4 mins read
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Book review: Saving Social Care by Neil Eastwood

The government has just announced a health and social care levy which is expected to raise £14bn a year. Of this, £1.8bn a year will go to social care. But will money alone fix the problems? Helen Burns reviews Saving Social Care
13 September 2021
3 mins read

Book review: Patients’ Emancipation: Towards Equality

Charlotte Williamson has been chair of the patient liaison group for the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is an expert in giving friendly but challenging feedback to our profession, making sure the patient's voice is heard. Roger Jones reviews her important
6 September 2021
3 mins read

Join or die

John Frey updates us on the state of family medicine in the US as doctors have reacted to the Covid pandemic. A lot of it sounds familiar..........
2 September 2021
4 mins read

Every contact leaves a trace

In consultations there is an emotional “exchange” between the doctor and the patient. Usually the patient comes to see us in a state of anxiety, ill health, sometimes frustration and anger and then projects this onto the GP. The GP will then
1 September 2021
3 mins read
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