Book review: Of Patient Bearing – A history of general practice in eight generations.
Raj Khanchandani reviews a book describing a family of eight generations of GPs. Quite a history, with some surprising parallels for us today.
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Book review: Island Dreams
Gavin Francis ia a GP and the best selling author of “Adventures in Human Being”. Fiona Baskett reviews his latest book – just what we need to escape from the grim world of 2020.
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Book Review: Sick Enough. A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating disorders.
On Boxing Day Serena Strickland reviews a book about the management of eating disorders.
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Book review: Beneath the White Coat – Doctors, their minds and mental health. Clare Gerada
As doctors we know we are invincible and immortal, and if we’re not we’d better hide it. John Spicer reviews Clare Gerada’s important new book which looks underneath the white coat to examine what happens to human beings who happen to be doctors, when things go wrong.
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Book Review: The Good Ancestor, by Roman Krznaric
Many of us worry about the world our children and grandchildren will grow up in. Dan Jones reviews a book that tells us that action is better than mere worry.
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Book review: Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self.
Our rationality is our core defining human characteristic – right? Maybe not! Christopher Dowrick reviews an important book on the central role of our emotions.
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Book (Graphic Novel) Review. From Hell: Master Edition
Sati Heer-Stavert reviews a somewhat graphic Graphic Novel and draws some surprising conclusions….
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Book Review: Blinded by Covid
Martin Edwards and Anjna Harrar review this polemical but important book. It is devastatingly critical of the government, its advisors and Public Health England in its analysis of the early months of the COVID-19 crisis in Britain.
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Long Read: The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
A New Indian Express editorial read “Can one person change the world? Ask Andrew Wakefield”. Peter Lindsay reviews “The Doctor who fooled the world” by Brian Deer Scribe, and reflects on the damage caused by Wakefield’s career.
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Book Review: The Pandemic Century
Bill Reith reflects on a hundred years of “Panic, Hysteria and Hubris” as he reviews this timely book.
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Book review: The art of viral communication
“The Virus” sets out to provide answers to the key question, “It’s 15,000 times smaller than a flea and we can kill it with a bar of soap – so how did a tiny, fragile virus change the world?” Lesley Morrison reviews a cartoon book aimed at older children that explains the science behind Covid.
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BOOK REVIEW. Beyond the Silence: The novel as a teaching tale
There has been an increasing awareness of the toll that medicine takes upon the mental health of NHS staff, especially GPs. general practitioners. Paul Main reflects on a novel that depicts mental illness – and healing.
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