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David Zigmond was a small practice GP in south London 1977-2016. You can read Obituary for St James Church Surgery here. Corporatism often enlarges and entrenches itself by increasing demands for compliance. Eventually though, unchecked, this will sicken any organisation. Such is
Dr Stanley Jeffs is a retired GP who has made regular contributions to the College Journal. He is now 90 years old. His first article, An Epidemic of Lumbago, was published in 1961. You can download and read it from our archives here.
These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org in 2016. 1. Overdiagnosis of asthma in children in primary care: a retrospective analysis. http://bjgp.org/content/66/644/e152 Overdiagnosis of childhood asthma is common in primary care, leading to unnecessary
Carrie Ladd is a part time NHS GP, a spare time RCGP Clinical Fellow in Perinatal Mental Health and a full time mum… doing overtime! You can find her on Twitter @LaddCar and she has a website. On Sunday 28th November, Dr Lucy
Christien Fortune is a final year medical student at The University of Manchester and has interests in cardiology and medical education. In the fabled land of post-June 23rd Britain and Northern Ireland, politics in the UK has been understandably dominated by the UK’s
Niamh Scally graduated from Norwich Medical School in 2013 and completed foundation training in Manchester. She is currently enjoying an F3 year before starting her paediatric training in London later this year. She has an interest in health inequalities and care of
The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the BMJ paper: Migraine and risk of cardiovascular disease in women: prospective cohort study by Kurth et al. You can download it here. Migraine occurs in 15% of the UK adult population and is three times
Phil Wrigley is a Commissioning Manager in Islington where he has worked for over 12 years; he currently leads on LTCs and Self Care – prior to 2004 he was a professional actor for 25 years. There is a scenario frequently used
Bronwen Warner is an FY1 doctor at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She spent a month with Heilendi GP Practice in the Orkney Islands as part of her elective at Bristol Medical School. Patients stumble into the waiting room, propelled by a passing
Ashika Sequeira trained on the Bromley GP Scheme and is a Locum General Practitioner. Alexandra Grove is an ST2 trainee in General Practice in the Tower Hamlets training scheme, East London. Vanessa Oo is a GPST2 in the UCLH GP training scheme. Work
The April GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Lorgeril M, Rabaeus M. Beyond confusion and controversy, can we evaluate the real efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering with statins? JCBMR 2016;1(1):67 The next GP Journal Club will be
Christos Mousoulis is a medical doctor specialising in Public Health. He is currently an Academic Clinical Fellow doing his health protection placement at Public Health England – West Midlands East team. His main interest is in Academic Public Health and in Clinical Trials
The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the BJGP paper: Telephone triage systems in UK general practice: analysis of consultation duration during the index day in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Holt et al. You can download it here. The
The February GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Douglas IJ, Bhaskaran K, Batterham RL, Smeeth L. Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care. PLoS Med.
Jim Newmark is a GP who has progressed in his career from senior partnership to salaried to volunteer doctor status. He feels that his Christian faith and family make up for his abysmal memory and gross humiliation in pub quizzes. In November
Simon Morgan is a GP and medical educator from Newcastle, NSW, Australia. He spends his spare time writing and playing the ukulele. Can I take a photo? Recently, I was in Heathrow Airport when an anonymous traveller approached me and asked ‘Do
These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org. 1. Child obesity cut-offs as derived from parental perceptions: cross-sectional questionnaire. http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/e234 Parental perceptions and clinical definitions of child obesity are known to diverge; however, the
The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the PLOS Medicine article: Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care by Douglas et al. You can download it here. The next #gpjc
The first GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was Promoting physical activity in older people in general practice: ProAct65+ cluster randomised controlled trial by Illiffe et al and it can be downloaded here at bjgp.org. The next GP Journal Club
First #gpjc tweet chat will be 8pm UK time on Sunday 10th January. Please read the article and get involved. https://t.co/lVgWEBbC6I — GPjournalclub (@GPjournalclub) December 10, 2015 Lucy Pocock is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care and is on Twitter @drpoco
Alice James is a 4th year medical student at Bristol University. She is passionate about promoting general practice to other students in her role as Chair of the University GP Society (Bristol GPSoc) and student representative for the Severn Faculty RCGP. Nilakshini
Peter Sykes is a retired surgeon and author. His latest light hearted novel, entitled ‘First do no harm’ is set against the industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970s. His website is www.petersykes.org. Recently junior doctors voted overwhelmingly in favour of
Devin Gray is a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow and a GP trainee, interested in driving system-level change to achieve better care and outcomes for patients. This article was co-authored with Professor Nigel Sparrow OBE, Senior National GP Advisor and Responsible Officer, CQC
Rebecca Farrington first worked overseas with refugees 20 years ago for MSF. She is now a GPwSI in refugee mental health having worked in the UK as a GP with people seeking asylum for 10 years. She combines this with a clinical
Mary McCarthy is a GP in Shrewsbury., She is on the GPC and is interested in comparative health systems. She is the BMA rep to UEMO. he UEMO (Union Européenne des Médecins Omnipraticiens) represents GPs in 26 European member states. It develops policy
Ravi Parekh is an academic clinical fellow in General Practice in North-West London with an interest in Medical Education. I am a GP registrar working in London and over the past few months I have felt increasingly apprehensive about the future of
Richard Lehman gives some background on the BJGP article The Ten Commandments for Patient-Centred Treatment published in the October issue. The Ten Commandments for Patient-Centred Treatment had a gestation of nearly four years. And their true parent was John S Yudkin, Emeritus
Guy Rughani is a Foundation Year 2 doctor working in North London. He wrote this short letter to the BJGP. Contribute to the BJGP at http://bjgp.org/letters. I want to be a GP, but the government is doing everything it can to stop me.
Alistair Dobbin is an honorary fellow at Edinburgh University medical school, an ex GP, a researcher and charity director. Book Review: How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self by A.D. (Bud) Craig. Available at Princeton Press: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10405.html Groundbreaking scientific discovery
Jess Drinkwater is a GP in Bradford and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. (Ed note: And she is a member of the BJGP Editorial Board.) I am the worst type of car owner. I have never cleaned my
Stephen Bergman is a doctor, novelist and playwright. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Medical Humanities and Ethics at New York University Medical School. His book, The House of God, published in 1978, is firmly established in medical culture
Just before the conference this morning they played a 2½ minute video by Dr Jamie Hynes, a GP in Wolverhampton. He's on Twitter: @ArtfulDoctor.
Khalil Hassanally is a First5 GP and student of bioethics. Twitter: @asuitabledoctor Coming from an immigrant community there has always been huge pressure on not losing one’s roots. Many apocryphal tales, anecdotes and fables are told in this regard, and one in
James Pearson is an ST3 trainee in Bath and the education scholar for the year. Suddenly you are sitting there alongside all these very intelligent people and the familiar world of sixth form seems so far away. I still remember my first
David Nunan is a Departmental Lecturer and Senior Researcher based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. His research interests include evidence-based medicine, cardiovascular and non-communicable disease and
There’s still time to apply to become a Member of the Editorial Board at the BJGP. Closing date for applications is 14th August 2015. More details are available here.
Lydia Yarlott is in her final year at Oxford Medical School. She is the winner of the 2015 BJGP Student Writing Competition themed ‘The GP in the Digital Age’ with her original article A Digital Ache. Her tale of one GP versus
Joe Anthony is a history graduate currently in his fourth year studying medicine at the University of Manchester. He was joint second in the BJGP Student Writing Competition which had the theme The GP in the Digital Age. Joe’s article took us straight into
Rebecca Varley trained at Lancaster Medical School and is on the brink of being an FY1 based at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was joint second place in the BJGP Student Writing Competition which had the theme ‘The GP in the Digital Age’. We liked her
Nabila Rehnnuma is a first year graduate-entry medical student at Cambridge University. A funding crisis, increasing workload, falling real income and continuing negative media press, these are just a few of the reasons why general practice is decreasing in its level of
