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The problem with order

Bhupinder Goraya muses on the concepts of order and randomness in relation to health and primary healthcare. We’ve worked 'bloody hard' to make a random mechanical universe work, in doing so we have ordered our leisure.
30 June 2022
8 mins read

A short history of general practice: The changing gaze

Over forty years ago, Nicholas Jewson coined the term ‘medical cosmology’ as shorthand for the prevailing theories and practices that defined the nature of medical discourse at that time. Stephen Gillam examines the changing gaze of British GPs in this final part
25 June 2022
10 mins read
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Palliative care needs and war in Ukraine

For as long as the war in Ukraine continues, the country’s existing substantial unmet need for palliative care and pain relief will increasingly intensify, and ever greater numbers of people with life-limiting conditions will experience intolerable yet preventable suffering at the most
20 June 2022
4 mins read
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A short history of general practice: Consumerist medicine

By the 1980s, general practice was a self-confident discipline with a burgeoning research base and enviable training standards able to attract those from the highest rungs of Moran’s infamous career ladder. Yet all was not well. Stephen Gillam's biography of the profession considers
18 June 2022
9 mins read
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A short history of general practice: Professional roots

The commonest misconception is that general practice, the ‘jewel in its crown’, is largely a product of the NHS. This short series of articles hopes to inform, stimulate and provoke. Stephen Gillam starts with the journey from apothecary to general practitioner.
28 May 2022
8 mins read
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The stoic GP

Stoic philosophy was based on the recognition that we cannot escape what is destined for us. An acceptance of inevitability has a number of implications for working as a GP. Austin O'Carroll wrestles with fate.
26 March 2022
5 mins read
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Random acts of joy — Fingernails

'Perhaps a psychoanalyst would coax out of me that growing my nails is an act of quiet liberation; I can decide how long I want my nails to be, I can decide what I want to next choose for myself. taking control
12 March 2022
4 mins read
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Ethics and toxic high-workload work environments

Martin Hewett argues that because of their understanding of their “duty of care”, doctors make micro-adjustments to their behaviours and work practices to cope with the increased work. This acceptance of the increased workload has two main effects: it sets a new
10 March 2022
7 mins read
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Southgate’s Sign

When you are with a patient and you get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, accompanied by a wish that you were somewhere else, then you are probably facing an ethical problem, writes Peter Toon
9 March 2022
4 mins read

On social connection and the Covid-19 pandemic

Being able to connect to others, to find joy and meaning in a common purpose, is not an added extra but is the very stuff of human life. But what of the effects of the Covid pandemic? Johanna Reilly discusses her concerns.
29 November 2021
8 mins read
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