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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 shame of patient complaints

For some reason, which of course you later regret, you check your work emails. There is an email ...with the subject title “Patient complaint.”
29 May 2025
4 mins read
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A new GP feeling at sea

Alongside the elation and excitement of reaching Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) however, is a feeling of being somewhat cast adrift.  There is a distinct lack of celebration and more importantly perhaps, a distinct lack of support.
19 May 2025
3 mins read
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The psychosomatic self

If the only reason a doctor labels symptoms as psychosomatic is that they can’t come up with a better explanation, they might as well blame the fairies at the bottom of the garden... Ben Hoban will make you think!
14 May 2025
5 mins read
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Clinical courage

Clinical courage is a term that has emerged in the field of rural general practice, particularly in Canada and Australia. Caroline McCarthy reflects on how it manifested for her.
8 May 2025
3 mins read
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The days of small things

...I sensed that they also lived in a different dimension of time. The soft chattering of the patients waiting and sitting on the grass outside the clinic had an unhurried acceptance of just waiting. Storied reflection from rural general practice in South
5 May 2025
5 mins read

It is time we talk about the duties of a patient

"... while patients' rights have been well-defined, the corresponding duties of a patient are rarely articulated [...] Just as doctors must adhere to professional standards, patients should be expected to fulfil certain duties — to themselves, healthcare professionals, the health system, society,
24 April 2025
5 mins read
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Unfurling

Not the landlocked, shuffling prison. Even acid-green woggled she’s beautiful in the water, looser. Untangled. A poem.
15 April 2025
1 min read
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Fight or Flight

‘Trauma is patient, doc, if it's one thing I've learnt.’ His pale green eyes fix on mine dark pupils with an infinity of space. A poem by Giles Dawnay
10 April 2025
1 min read
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How long does general practice take?

"... to my surprise, I’ve become the sort of doctor that has been in the same clinic for 20 years. I’ve never been bored, I’ve often been anxious, and I’ve been privileged to witness some of the most amazing and some of the
8 April 2025
2 mins read
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