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Book review

Book review/Opinion

On ‘On Bullshit’ and the removal of nutrition from words

Can a statement be a lie if if its author does not know (or want to know) that they are lying? John Spicer reviews an intriguing little book 'On Bullshit.'

17 May 2022
7 mins read
Book review/Opinion

Book review : The five health frontiers, a new radical blueprint

Robert MacGibbon reviews a new radical blueprint for health which examines ‘five frontiers of health’; social justice, economic, social care, sustainability and a public health new deal.

7 May 2022
4 mins read
Book review/Coronavirus

Book review: The long covid self-help guide: practical ways to manage symptoms

Trish Greenhalgh reviews a book intended as a supplement to the clinical care offered in specialist long covid clinics.

28 April 2022
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal by Monty Lyman

Hannah Milton, GP, reviews Monty Lyman's The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal.

24 April 2022
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: Finding the mother tree

Trish Greenhalgh suggests we learn from other disciplines about the folly of taking an overly reductive, one-variable-at-a-time view of the world and mistaking it for the highest form of science.

9 April 2022
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: Frontline -saving lives in war, disaster and disease, by Tony Redmond

Andrew Papanikitas finds that 'Frontline' is not the ‘One bloody thing after another,’ of sensationalism for shock value. It is a reflective account full of haunting ethical choices.

2 April 2022
5 mins read
Book review/Opinion

Book review: Humanity’s Conundrum by David Zigmond

Chris Dowrick reviews 'Humanity's conundrum' by David Zigmond. It is easy to become jaded and tired and to lose sight of the therapeutic purpose underlying all of our clinical encounters. Zigmond reminds us to stop, to listen and to respond.

13 March 2022
6 mins read
Book review/International

Book Review: ‘Go, went, gone’ by Jenny Erpenbeck

Paquita De Zulueta reviews 'Go, went, gone' by Jenny Erpenbeck, a novel tackling themes of asylum and involuntary displacement

5 March 2022
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: The Deepest Well: Healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity

Hannah Milton reviews a book which argues that childhood adversity leads to other illnesses and that interventions for parents and children are needed as early as possible.

27 February 2022
6 mins read
Book review

Book Review: ‘Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty’ by Patrick Radden Keefe

RCGP Past President, Terry Kemple, reviews Keefe's 'Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty'.

10 February 2022
6 mins read
Book review

Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner

Marion Brown reviews Michael P. Hengartner'a critique of the pharmaceutical evidence for antidepressant use and underlying disease models.

14 January 2022
7 mins read
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Book review

Book review: Early medical abortion, equality of access, and the telemedical imperative

Early medical abortion, equality of access, and the telemedical imperative is an exploration of both early medical abortion and telemedicine through the lenses of clinical evidence, social developments and legal policy. Andrew Papanikitas gives us his review.

30 December 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: Bullshit jobs – the rise of pointless work and what we can do about it

Are at least 50% of jobs in the industrialised world pointless and unnecessary? Emma McKenzie-Edwards reviews "Bullshit jobs – the rise of pointless work and what we can do about it", by David Graeber.

27 December 2021
7 mins read
Book review

‘Never try to rush your last patient on a Friday afternoon’: why we need wisdom literature in medicine.

Why on earth would a GP read a textbook of radiology? John Launer finds wisdom for all doctors in an unexpected place.

21 December 2021
5 mins read
Book review

What Happened to You?

Hannah Milton reviews "What Happened to You?" by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. The The book seeks to shift conversations away from “what is wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?”

16 December 2021
6 mins read
Book review

The doctor will see you now

The intense pressure GPs are constantly facing can at times feel like a landslide ready to take us under. Awais Ahmad reviews "The Doctor Will See You Now", which lifts the lid on it all.

22 November 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Unwell women: misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world

Rebecca Mawson reviews Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn. Her verdict - it is worth a read for anyone who lives as a woman, lives with a woman, or lives a life where they look after women!

12 November 2021
6 mins read
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Book review

On unsung heroes in primary care, and helping parents and babies to sleep.

General practice is full of unsung heroes. John Launer tells us about Dilys Daws and reviews two of her books, which may be of great help to many parents.

2 November 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book Review: Brain Fever. Professor Richard Moxon

We have all had the fear that that a child we had seen with a minor flu-like illness at 4pm might be terminally ill with meningococcal septicaemia before the day was over. Hugh Bethell reviews a book by Oxford Professor of Paediatrics

28 October 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: Racist Tones | Reflections on 2 Tone, racism and medicine

"Whereas 2 Tone bands were kicking out neo-Nazis from their gigs decades ago, anecdotal reports of obsequious adjustments accommodating the racist demands of some patients continue to occur within the NHS today, despite an official zero-tolerance approach to racism." Sati Heer-Stavert reflects

23 September 2021
8 mins read
Book review

Book review: Saving Social Care by Neil Eastwood

The government has just announced a health and social care levy which is expected to raise £14bn a year. Of this, £1.8bn a year will go to social care. But will money alone fix the problems? Helen Burns reviews Saving Social Care

13 September 2021
6 mins read
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: Inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice

Those who come from poorer backgrounds get unwell earlier and die almost a decade before those from richer backgrounds. Dipesh Gopal reviews "Inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice" by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.

8 September 2021
8 mins read
Book review

Book review: Patients’ Emancipation: Towards Equality

Charlotte Williamson has been chair of the patient liaison group for the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is an expert in giving friendly but challenging feedback to our profession, making sure the patient's voice is heard. Roger Jones reviews her important

6 September 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Book Review: My Dark Vanessa

My Dark Vanessa is not an easy read, but any book that tackles the subject of abuse, sexual exploitation, victimhood, and coercive control is bound to be challenging ...

23 August 2021
3 mins read
Book review

Book review: The Inflatable Cushion and other Stories: Real life reflections from general practice

Alena Chong reviews John Launer's latest book .... and is inspired to shower colleagues and patients with limitless compassion, calmness, loving-kindness and appreciative joy.

19 August 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: Compassionate Leadership

John Gillies reviews a textbook on Compassionate Leadership, with the subtitle ‘sustaining wisdom, humanity and presence in health and social care.’ It might just be a book whose time has come.

18 August 2021
12 mins read
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Book review

Book review: Dr Samways writes to the Editor

Nigel Masters reviews "Dr Samways writes to the Editor: The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician" by Tom Treasure. Samways was a remarkable 19th century General Practitioner who still holds lessons for us today.

16 August 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: Spike. The Virus vs The People

Richard Baker reviews the first authoritative account of the UK government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

6 August 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
Book review

Let’s kill all the lawyers: If you prick me, do I not bleed?

Doctors face “triple jeopardy” - being pursued by the Civil Court for damages, the Criminal Court for negligence, and the GMC for fitness to practice. Alena Chong reviews a novel by Tim Howard, a fellow doctor, about what can happen when things

21 July 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book Review: The Wellbeing Toolkit for Doctors

It's not been an easy time to be a doctor! Jonathan Wells reviews "The Wellbeing Toolkit for Doctors", a timely new book for GPs, medical students and doctors in training. Let's look after ourselves and each other!

7 July 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: Unwell Women

'... this book helps to illuminate the feminist perspective on injustice in health care.' — Judith Dawson reviews Elinor Creghorn's new book 'Unwell Women', a history of the mistreatment, misdiagnoses, trauma, and neglect women have received in health care from Ancient Greece

3 July 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Report review: The Perils of Industrialised Healthcare by David Zigmond

Is the NHS too Industrialised? In this report David Zigmond argues that it is. Zigmond builds on a Kings Fund Report from 2014 which criticised recent approaches to improving UK health care. These reports cover vital issues, as yet another round of NHS

1 July 2021
20 mins read
Book review

Book review: Saving Sick Britain – a sound diagnosis but questionable management plan

Saving Sick Britain argues for a society that places the health of its citizens at the forefront, but is such a future attainable? Richard Churchill reviews the new book published by Manchester University Press.

19 June 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: Lifeline by Dr Barry Monk

We are repeatedly told that we should learn from the airline industry in order to solve our perennial problems with patient safety. So why don't we? Why is the NHS so dysfunctional in its management? Henry Tegner's review of Barry Monk's important

14 June 2021
7 mins read
Book review

Book review: A Radical Practice in Liverpool: the rise, fall and rise of Princes Park Health Centre

Princes Park Health Centre has an iconic status within the health economy of Merseyside. Founded in 1977 by Cyril Taylor, it was set up as an explicitly socialist practice in a deprived inner-city area. Chris Dowrick reviews Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham

11 June 2021
5 mins read
Book review

Book review. Quality of Life: A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine by Robin Downie

What is the role of doctors in improving ‘quality of life’ and what does this concept mean? Emma Storr reviews an important new book by Robin Downie that considers this, and many other questions.

5 June 2021
6 mins read
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Book review

Book Review: Hope and Fear in the time of covid-19.

Is it time to take a step back and reflect on the wider consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic? Judith Dawson reviews a monograph by Samar Razaq that does just that.

29 May 2021
6 mins read
Book review

Book review: The Migrant Diaries

'The Migrant Diaries is the most powerful, moving, and informative account I have come across of the worldwide migrant/refugee crisis ... ' — Dougal Jeffries reviews Dr Lynne Jones latest novel, The Migrant Diaries.

22 May 2021
9 mins read
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