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Every gap is an educational gap

"Recently I saw Ted and Rachel. They were living temporarily in a share house as they had recently been made homeless. Ted is a happy man despite his current circumstances, but has diabetes that is not well controlled. He takes his medication,
9 January 2026
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Turning the tide on healthy eating

Despite regular reports about ‘improving the diet of the population’, little has changed. Eight years ago less than a third of people ate five portions of fruit and vegetables per day, and that figure hasn’t budged since. Chris Newman suggests that GPs
7 November 2024
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Narrative and Numbers

We walk a tightrope in medicine, balancing every day the unique and complex needs of individual patients with the standardised requirements of the rule-book that governs their care. There is danger in tipping too far in either direction. Ben Hoban makes us
24 October 2024
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Reclaiming holistic medicine

Somewhere along the line holistic medicine has been claimed as a special expertise in addition to what we, as mere GPs, do. Tim Senior asks whether and how we should be holistic!
16 October 2024
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Safe care in paediatrics

I am immensely grateful that I was fortunate enough never to have made any major blunders with children’s care in my career. But I would have slept better had I read this book.
9 October 2024
2 mins read

Heart-based medicine

Gabriella Day reflects on general practice in 2024. Advances in clinical medicine are of great benefit, but their value is diminished when implemented without heart.
30 September 2024
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Trust

Again and again we learn — when trust fails, systems fail ...
23 September 2024
3 mins read

Standing up for the wisdom of general practice

People just don’t understand what General Practice, as a medical discipline, is. Meaning that people are creating solutions to our capacity issues based on a misunderstanding of what we do. Joanne Reeve channels her indignation into a rallying cry for advanced generalist
18 September 2024
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Were you Dad’s Doctor?

When does a GP attend a patient’s funeral? Emma Ladds writes about how it is such a privilege to be a family doctor, and about grief when losing a patient.
11 September 2024
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Archery, noodles and general practice

Appeals to tradition represent a desire to preserve the evanescent, to build a clear narrative that tells us who we are and how we should go about things, even if its historical basis is shaky. We project our thinking onto ... general
2 September 2024
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