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Book review: Timor Mortis: How we Live with Death

"I personally am in favour of assisted dying and am a director of the organisation Dignity in Dying, which campaigns for a change in the law. However, I am wary of doctors who admit to hastening someone’s death because it clouds the
28 October 2026
4 mins read

Book Review: Hungry: A Biography of My Body

Katriona O'Sullivan's memoir Hungry depicts a growing discomfort with how both the media and the medical community are talking about patients living with obesity. We have been giving patients with obesity two options, and both take agency away. 'Eat less and move
10 October 2026
3 mins read
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Exhibition review: A Second Life by Tracey Emin

"Emin, through her art, has converted the chaos generated from sexual abuse and poverty in early life into a beautiful lens for us to understand ourselves and our patients better." - Hector Watson and Elizabeth Walton review Tracey Emin's A Second Life,
13 June 2026
3 mins read
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Book review: Gloria Don’t Speak

"This book gives Gloria a voice. It needs to be read widely by anyone involved in the care of people with learning disability or neurodiversity." - Peter Lindsay reviews Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps
2 May 2026
3 mins read
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

In many respects, Kelson embodies the idealised GP of cultural consciousness: an easy-to-talk-to, principled eccentric... Set against the film’s graphic, meandering violence, Kelson’s permanence echoes reassuring familiarity.
7 February 2026
1 min read
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Icarus Plummeting

Zigmond mercilessly describes the ways in which our healthcare systems have made us less able to listen to the patient’s experience, less able to see their experience in the context of their life, their family and their social circumstances.
31 January 2026
2 mins read

Book review: How Animals Heal Us

"How Animals Heal Us is a deeply heartfelt work from an author with lived experience of both devastating mental ill health and the restorative power of animal friendship. It contains uplifting and joyful anecdotes of animal companionship and ministration. It is also,
24 January 2026
2 mins read

Stranger Within: Poems & Prose, by Blair Smith

Blair Smith was a GP for twenty years before he became a professor and then a consultant in pain medicine. This lovely book reflects all these aspects of his career as well as his own personal cancer experience.
13 December 2025
1 min read

Book review: Breathe: How to Win a Greener World

"Something remarkable has happened that will improve the health of thousands in London, and it doesn’t require a GP review. For the first time since legal limits were introduced in 2010, London’s nitrogen dioxide levels have dropped within legal thresholds ..."
25 October 2025
4 mins read

Book review: The Elements

"As GPs we are the naturalists of the human jungle. This is where we practice, not the controlled and tidy spaces of the secondary care zoo. Our jungle has dark and hidden thickets. How are we to help those caught up in
11 October 2025
2 mins read
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