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Monty Hall for doctors

Three doors are visible to the audience, behind one of which is a car; behind the others are two goats, presumably sedated to stop them giving themselves away...
12 January 2026
5 mins read

An Alternative Tour of Paris

Yvette Pyne has taken a tour of the beautiful city of Paris just before Christmas. No, not the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and shopping, but refugee squats as a medic for a charity providing medical assistance to asylum seekers in France.
22 December 2021
3 mins read
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Future doctors as knowledge workers

'Knowledge work' is the work that clinicians do to find, create, and use knowledge in everyday clinical practice. Annabelle Machin and her colleagues explain the role of the WISDOM project.
20 December 2021
2 mins read

A call to charity

Generally speaking, we like to consider medical practice as a matter of hard science rather than opinion. Bhupinder Goraya also invites us to treat disagreement with kindness.
14 December 2021
3 mins read

Does the inverse care law medicalise a social issue?

The last 2 years have demonstrated that disease and mortality does discriminate by postcode, but some argue the ‘inverse care law’ is an ideological stance rather than a medical issue. Daniel Butler and Nigel Hart add to the debate over the question
7 December 2021
3 mins read

Some nebulous medical imagery

Have you ever looked at a cloud and seen the likeness of a cartoon character? This phenomenon is known as pareidolia. Laura Amarin and Camille Gajria tell us about pareidolia in medicine.
2 December 2021
2 mins read

Stop talking about resilience

How many times a day are we hearing the ‘R’ word in our lives? The request of healthcare staff to be r*******t at a time when primary care is assaulted daily by the British media and those in power is an insult.
30 November 2021
3 mins read

I had compassion fatigue

Hannah Milton shares her experience of compassion fatigue following being both a mum and a GP at the same time. She shares how she not only recovered, but how her recovery has left her now better able to empathise with patients.
25 November 2021
3 mins read

Goal-oriented case presentation for GP trainee education

Case presentations based on a problem-oriented system can function as a medium through which medical students gain a disease-focused viewpoint. Koki Kato and Junichiro Miyachi suggest that to change our viewpoint we should change our language.
5 November 2021
2 mins read

Validate yourself from within

Zakariya Goga reminds us that our legacy, wherever we work is woven in the fabric of our community and will be palpable for generations to come. So do not validate yourself by external references. Validate yourself from within.
3 November 2021
3 mins read

Being a woman in a primary care world

Rubia Usman is a female GP from an ethnic minority. Her message is simple: "If you work hard and you are a woman you have the power. More power to you. This is (y)our time!"
27 October 2021
2 mins read
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Why GP2GP is my ‘bête noire’

A significant percentage of GP2GP transfers are not being successfully completed. Nigel Masters explains that a failure to get this right soon will see significant degradation of primary care medical notes.
21 October 2021
2 mins read

Compassion first

Nobody wants to be greeted or processed in an uncaring and clinical manner. Sue Thurlow suggests that our motto should be "Compassion First", not "Digital First".
15 October 2021
2 mins read

General practice – a crisis of vision?

Has a reduction in face to face appointments meant a change of vision for UK General Practice? Richard Pratt argues that our vision is unchanged, it is our methods that have had to change.
12 October 2021
2 mins read

Problematic pandemic

Last year the Lancet predicted ‘Substantial increases in the number of avoidable cancer deaths in England’ as a result of diagnostic delays due to the pandemic in the UK. Jenny Stephenson discusses some of the issues involved.
5 October 2021
3 mins read

Unlearning resentment

Is the concept of the patient as an 'inconvenience' a pernicious aspect of the hidden curriculum of medical school and postgraduate training? Nathaniel Aspray tells us his story.
4 October 2021
2 mins read

No, we are not OK

Our current system is not OK. Day after day, my clinic is full of people struggling to cope with their mental health needs. So what is going wrong?
30 September 2021
3 mins read

Revisiting Good Medical Practice

Why is the General Medical Council's ‘Good Medical Practice' like eating plate after plate of chips? No, it's not the first line of a joke - let Bhupinder Goraya explain all.
14 September 2021
4 mins read
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Every contact leaves a trace

In consultations there is an emotional “exchange” between the doctor and the patient. Usually the patient comes to see us in a state of anxiety, ill health, sometimes frustration and anger and then projects this onto the GP. The GP will then
1 September 2021
3 mins read

Those who can, teach

Positive experiences on GP placements make undergraduates more likely to pursue GP training later on. Jack Amiry found that GPs who enjoy teaching have numerous opportunities to get involved.
11 August 2021
3 mins read

Un(en)titled

She is young to have so many layers to her suffering. I know about the fragile life she leads on the edge of homelessness ...
10 August 2021
1 min read
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Football, racism and the NHS

It takes great commitment, responsibility and dedication to save lives at the coal-face of the NHS. Yet we are seeing sharp increases in the abuse, violence and discrimination of our NHS staff. Carter Singh reflects on the way that the Euro 2020
3 August 2021
3 mins read

Looking beyond the obvious

During this pandemic we have sometimes been so overwhelmed by the obvious information that we overlook what is hidden in plain sight. Samar Razaq advises us to avoid premature enumeration.
28 July 2021
3 mins read
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