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D.I.Y S.O.S

What do you do to help switch off after a busy clinical day? Read? Paint? Brick-lay? GP and post-CCT Fellow, Sophie Ingham, reveals her surprising discovery of D.I.Y as a therapeutic tool during the COVID-19 pandemic.
11 December 2020
3 mins read

Three types of agnosia

We doctors are pretty smart, yes? Chris Tiley identifies three critical areas of understanding that we need to get straight.
9 December 2020
2 mins read

Wild Swimming

Missing the gymn or pool? Or just Covid enui? James Douglas challenges us to try wild swimming!
7 December 2020
3 mins read

Time for a little Self-Love?

Some GPs seem invincible, gliding through their entire careers with a minimum of alarms. How do they do it? Retired GP, Ed Warren, muses on attitudes worth cultivating during a career as a GP.
13 November 2020
3 mins read

Primary care buildings must be designed for pandemics

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, operating procedures to deal with face-to-face consultations in primary care in the United Kingdom were clear in the need of separating services for patients with symptoms of Covid-19, and for shielded patients needing care. Pablo Millares Martin
11 November 2020
3 mins read

The GP as an advocate: Widening migrant access to healthcare

Migrants are widely recognised to have complex and diverse health needs, but recent reform within the NHS includes the introduction of healthcare charges for many of them. These may create pressure on GP services, increase the disease burden and widen health inequalities,
10 November 2020
4 mins read
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In the refugee camps of Greece

We see the refugee crisis remotely, on our TV screens. Dr Peter von Kaehne decided to do something to help. We need to hear his story.
10 November 2020
3 mins read
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Clothed/unclothed

Many clinical situations force patients into disempowered vulnerability. Judith Dawson reflects on the etiquette of dressing and undressing within the consultation.
9 November 2020
2 mins read

Beyond the clinical coalface

Many former GPs may want to move along a different career pathway, but when they retire from clinical work they encounter barriers. Mona Aquilina argues that we need to harness and leverage the skills and energy of these doctors and she gives
4 November 2020
3 mins read
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Embracing Change: Reflections from a newly qualified GP

For a patient, time with their GP is everything; time to explain, connect, and trust. For the GP, time is just as essential. Not only for improved patient care, but for reflection on the enormous and constant changes to the profession. In
12 October 2020
3 mins read
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Everybody Hurts Sometimes

30 years ago we were told we were not treating pain adequately. There was a push to give people more analgesia. So, armed with our opioids and gabapentinoids we went and we medicated. But peoples' pain got worse. Katie Barnett examines what
9 October 2020
4 mins read
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Covid-19: communicating with numbers

Numbers have no voice. We, however, give them meaning. Using numbers we can twist the narrative to suit the point we want to make. Following his spectacular rise on social media Samar Razaq investigates the dark arts of manipulation, politics and statistics.
2 October 2020
2 mins read

The Citadel by A. J. Cronin: A symbolic title

The Citadel, a 1937 novel by A. J. Cronin, explores the themes of social and health inequalities, drawing from his personal experiences working as a doctor in Britain’s pre-NHS era. The protagonist, newly qualified and virtuous Dr Andrew Manson, begins his medical
17 September 2020
3 mins read

The view from the ferris wheel

Who would have wanted to be a lead clinician in Public Health England at the start of the pandemic? Judith Dawson finds that trying to balance the population losses against individual and economic loss is an impossible job. But in a typical
15 September 2020
2 mins read

Wellbeing and the primary care workforce

The primary care workforce has been right at the heart of the response to COVID-19, working hard in new and rapidly changing circumstances to ensure patient care continues to be provided to all those who need it in the community.
14 September 2020
3 mins read
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A short course in racism

David Misselbrook discusses how two books, To Kill a Mockingbird and Sacred Hunger, have helped him understand more about why Black Lives Matter matters and have given him his own refresher course in racism.
11 September 2020
3 mins read
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