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Two epidemics revisited

Why does France seem to be so much better at protecting its population than the UK? Peter Toon reflects on his experience, and advises the Government to put some cheese as well as eggs in its basket.
16 November 2021
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Join or die

John Frey updates us on the state of family medicine in the US as doctors have reacted to the Covid pandemic. A lot of it sounds familiar..........
2 September 2021
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Relaying financial aid to Myanmar

BJGP Life has sought to keep us all informed about the medical and humanitarian crisis following on from the coup in Myanmar. Jim Brockbank tells us about a current initiative to get financial aid to Myanmar.
13 August 2021
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A Scottish elective: a view from Lebanon

Rana El-Jarrah is a third year medical postgraduate trainee in family medicine at the American University of Beirut. She volunteered in mobile clinics to refugee camps in Lebanon. She is interested in primary care refugee health and social medicine. Editor: Rana offers
1 November 2019
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Tour de France float with giant green cyclist

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
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Vasco da Gama exchange to Switzerland

Patricia Schartau is a ST4 academic clinical fellow in Primary Care at King’s College London and in the Royal Free Hospital VTS Training Scheme, with a specialist interest in men’s health & eHealth. I was chosen by the Vasco Da Gama Movement
21 June 2019
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GPs at the Deep End: International Bulletin No. 1

From its beginnings in Scotland, the Deep End movement of general practitioners serving deprived communities has spread to similar projects in Ireland, Yorkshire/Humber, Greater Manchester and Canberra, Australia. To share their local experiences, views, activities and plans, an international bulletin has been
6 June 2019
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Living in “The Citadel” in Sierra Leone

Michael Bryant is a GP who splits his time between South Wales and West Africa, where he works in paediatrics and as a medical educator. A J Cronin’s classic novel The Citadel is often credited as being partially responsible for the founding
15 March 2019
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Incorporating global health into your primary care life

The authors are current and former members of the RCGP Junior International Committee; Sonia Tsukagoshi (chair) Katrina Whalley (former National Exchange Coordinator, NEC) and Bernadeta Bridgwood (current NEC). Global health is an important area of primary care which is infiltrating general practice across the
29 June 2018
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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
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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
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Volunteering to be Different

Kirsty Wooff, having spent her foundation years in Glasgow, took an ‘FY3’ year to travel and volunteer in Malawi and Nepal. Travelling for eight months… A once in a lifetime opportunity. Eight months and nine countries. But what has it done for
17 October 2017
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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
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Volunteering in the Calais ‘jungle’

Niamh Scally graduated from Norwich Medical School in 2013 and completed foundation training in Manchester. She is currently enjoying an F3 year before starting her paediatric training in London later this year. She has an interest in health inequalities and care of
3 July 2016
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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
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