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David Misselbrook

David Misselbrook was a South London GP for 30 years. He was involved with GP training, CPD development and medical ethics. He has recently retired from teaching Family Medicine and ethics for RCSI Bahrain.

Stories

The RCGP saves the world in time for Christmas – again!

This is now the second time Max Phobius has saved the world in time for Christmas. It's all beginning to look a bit unlikely.......

24 December 2021
10 mins read
1
Book review

Book review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling

We all know that the world is going to hell in a handcart. But we all know wrong. David Misselbrook reviews Hans Rosling's final book: Factfulness.

9 September 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: A young doctor’s notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

Book review: "A young doctor's notebook" by Mikhail Bulgakov brings us back to what it felt like to be a newly qualified doctor with scary responsibilities and inadequate support.

30 July 2021
4 mins read
Opinion

The trolley problem, 2021 style

The requirement by the MHRA that there should be a 15 minute wait following covid vaccination has led to a delays in the UK vaccination program. David Misselbrook questions the ethics of this decision.

5 January 2021
8 mins read
1
Opinion

Zero Quark Thirty; Or how the RCGP saved the world in time for Christmas.

BJGP Life is now able to reveal how the RCGP foiled a ghastly plot and saved the world in time for Christmas.

21 December 2020
8 mins read
1
Opinion

Editorial comment – problems and solutions in palliative care?

Editorial comment - today we publish two articles on current challenges in palliative care and possible ways forward. Compare and contrast!

2 November 2020
2 mins read
BJGP

Editorial comment – your colleagues are waiting to hear from you!

BJGP Life is our coffee room – a place for news, chat, exchange of ideas and sometimes for challenging discussion. Why not have your say? Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments in the “leave a reply” box at the

30 October 2020
2 mins read
Coronavirus/International

Last haircut in Amwaj — COVID-19 in Bahrain

Bahrain is a sparkling jewel of an island, much less bling than Dubai, much more laid back and tolerant than many places in this region. Bahrain is coping remarkably well with Covid. But the two big challenges are the 2,000 Bahrainis returning

30 April 2020
7 mins read
Opinion

On cynicism. A post-election reverie.

David Misselbrook was a South London GP for 30 years. He was involved with GP training, CPD development and medical ethics. He now teaches Family Medicine and ethics for RCSI Bahrain. According to House, “patients lie”. Well, I guess most humans lie.

13 December 2019
6 mins read
Tour de France float with giant green cyclist
International

How to manage the Tour de France

David Misselbrook was a South London GP for 30 years. He was involved with GP training, CPD development and medical ethics. He now teaches Family Medicine and ethics for RCSI Bahrain. Sometimes we find ourselves in South West France when the Tour

15 August 2019
10 mins read
International

Delphi and the current path of Western culture

I have just come back from the centre of the world. Not the centre of the earth of course. No, in ancient times the centre of the world was reckoned to be Delphi. This claim was evidence based. If we do not

7 June 2018
10 mins read
2
International

Gulf culture, social eating and health

Bahrain has sometimes been called a string of shopping malls calling itself a country. This is quite a blinkered view. Bahrain is in fact a string of shopping malls and restaurants calling itself a country. Does it matter if we don’t eat

5 March 2018
8 mins read
2
International

First world problems

Summer in the Gulf gets quite warm. “Trailing spouses” (yes, that is the official visa term from the Ministry of Labour) tend to migrate north for the summer. Those of us working have to dash from one air conditioned environment to another.

30 October 2017
8 mins read
1
Opinion

A short break for tribalism, war and dodgy goddesses.

Bahrainis are migratory, especially during the annual Ashoora holiday. Ex-pats and locals alike flee the country, squeezing through Bahrain’s easygoing airport like a cork from champagne. Cyprus is beguilingly close, so there we landed for a couple of days R and R.

8 November 2016
6 mins read
2
Arts/Opinion

Heroes: general practice and Karpman’s triangle

Living in a different culture is exciting and fascinating. But living in Bahrain we do miss “culture” in its other sense. There is a magnificent National Theatre, usually empty, putting on just a few touring shows a year. The nearest opera house

5 October 2016
7 mins read
2
Opinion/Random

Why Slazenger’s cat explains global warming

I admit that Slazenger’s cat is a red herring, but my wife was in a rail carriage a while ago, close to a small group of friends in earnest discussion. One was trying to refer to the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat, but

19 September 2016
7 mins read
2
International

Tales of the Saudi causeway

The island Kingdom of Bahrain, sits like a hotter, sandier version of the Isle of Wight in the sparkling blue waters of the Arabian Gulf. It is joined to the Saudi mainland by a 25 kilometer causeway. There is a certain soap

25 August 2016
6 mins read
1
International

The blue pyjama brigade: primary care in Lesotho

Here at RCSI Bahrain our students wear blue scrubs to hospital attachments, but it’s a long time since I have been in scrubs. With some trepidation I had agreed to take four final year RCSI students to work for a fortnight in

3 July 2016
5 mins read
1
Arts/International/Random

Desperately seeking Plato

We were in Athens with a couple of hours to kill. Acropolised out, too early for Ouzo. We had seen Socrates’ jail cell (almost certainly apocryphal).  We had seen the remains of Aristotle’s Lyceum, lovingly excavated. We had felt the weight of

17 May 2016
5 mins read
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