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AiT/Random/Stories

Health warning to a young clinician

My heart goes out to all of us, who have been 'set up to fail'. Take heart and glove up - the work must go on... A poem by Rebecca Quinn

21 April 2023
2 mins read
Opinion/Stories

Imagining the future

The place of Medicine in our imagined future, science fiction, tends to be defined by technology. As in science fiction, so in medicine there is a constant tension between the technological and the human, what is possible and what is desirable.

5 April 2023
6 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Stories

Tending to the life we have been given

Sharing my humanity with your humanity, in snapshots, journeying together over a lifetime.  That is the essence of the general practice that I know, love and hate simultaneously. Kathleen Wenaden reflects...

2 April 2023
11 mins read
1
Stories

Flash fiction: Sunset

I always walk home from work. It gets me moving after 10 hours of mostly sitting in other people’s heads. My walk home is an oasis of no small talk, no confusion, no hidden agendas...

26 March 2023
2 mins read
Clinical/Opinion/Stories

“We threw the guidelines at her.”

Careful, caring and person-centred application of guidance is required to ensure patients benefit from, and are not harmed by, healthcare. I’d like to talk about Joan, an 86-year-old lady who had rarely visited the surgery. We threw the guidelines at her...

25 March 2023
8 mins read
2
Opinion/Stories

Your child’s GP

...After a long day being your child’s GP, I come home. I get a few tantrums, followed by a cuddle 10 minutes later. I am a mum, just like you.

19 March 2023
3 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion/Stories

Clinical psychologists as GPs for mental health?

Are GP practices equipped to respond to the current mental health crisis? Here, Jonathan Coates and Nick Hartley reflect on a recent pilot of the role of GP clinical psychologists in primary care - "an experienced, senior clinician independently handling undifferentiated presentations

16 March 2023
6 mins read
Random/Stories

A week in the day of Dr Somebody’s Diary

Dr Somebody* is a fictional late middle aged, mild to moderately burnout GP Partner in North London; he is suspicious about the current managerial changes in the NHS; his motto however is "contented with little, yet wishing for more", and at heart

12 March 2023
18 mins read
Opinion/Stories

Being an ethnic doctor is easier … but not easy

My parents being immigrants, enforced into us to keep our heads down and work hard, to adopt a ‘don’t cause trouble’ attitude... Being called these occasional names I still performed well academically at school, it never placed limits. Life was good …

9 March 2023
5 mins read
2
Opinion/Stories

“Your next patient is a doctor, doctor” – the story of a doctor who became sick

...it wasn’t until I became sick myself that I really understood what it meant to be a patient, or indeed those wider principles I tried to root my own practice in. For me, that once watertight seal between clinician and clinic was

5 March 2023
13 mins read
Opinion/Stories

“To do whatever I can for her until my last breath”

What is my take on carers? They deny they need a medal for what they do. I now have the awareness and the greatest respect for these unsung heroes. For me. I will continue to care for Mavis, to do whatever I

22 February 2023
11 mins read
Random/Stories

Not just a theory?

Newshound: Thanks for agreeing to see me, doctor…
Subject: John, it's just John these days. I appreciate your making the trip. Did anyone try to stop you?
(Dystopian satire from Ben Hoban)

19 February 2023
6 mins read
Stories

Storytime as a vehicle for reflective practice, part 2: the Christmas commercial

We shared four YouTube links to commercials from department stores and supermarkets of Christmas past and present –We asked all the group to view all of the short films in advance and then discussed them with members taking it in turns to

25 December 2022
7 mins read
Book review/Stories

Five book-ish stocking fillers

These are five small 'stocking-filler' books that you might see in a bookshop or a charity shop. They are all short and readable, and small enough to fit into most Christmas stockings. They all importantly have some inspiration and wisdom with which

24 December 2022
7 mins read
AiT/Arts/International/Stories

The Long Road

My love for those who could not help themselves was fuelled by passion,
As medicine became my way of helping them with care and compassion.

23 December 2022
14 mins read
1
Random/Stories

Futurism : GP 2031/The stocktake antimatter (Part 3)

A few minutes when they were outside, they started hearing the sounds of police cars and sirens and a loud deep droning noise, like a distant thunder, with the police obviously making their way to the ICAC... But it was too late

13 November 2022
24 mins read
Random/Stories

Futurism : GP 2031/The stocktake antimatter (part 2)

Gareth came round with the checklist and electronic timesheet and held the face scanner in front of each of their faces in turn to register their arrival... speculative fiction by Georgia Avon (Part 2)

6 November 2022
33 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Opinion/Stories

A tyranny of nouns

Doctors are inordinately fond of nouns. By and large, patients come to us not just with nouns, but with stories which include them but are driven along by verbs, words of action, backed up by adverbs, pronouns, and so on...

4 November 2022
9 mins read
Random/Stories

Futurism : GP 2031/The stocktake antimatter (Part 1)

...the term GP, she remembered that had previously existed, had been changed to IHP – Integrated Health Practitioner - in 2026 by the RCPHP... speculative fiction by Georgia Avon (Part 1)

30 October 2022
27 mins read
1
BJGP Long Read/Stories

An ethical dilemma at age 95

Tom Brett had known Martha as a patient for fifteen years. Widowed for over 25 years, she had moved from the family farm to settle in the city close to her children...

26 October 2022
7 mins read
3
Random/Stories

Pulp fiction, resilience, or something else?

So anyway, I left by the COVID door under cover of a virtual PCN meeting, figuring that by the time anyone noticed the urine samples building up at reception I’d be long gone. I’d heard of a guy with the kind of

22 October 2022
6 mins read
1
Arts/BJGP Long Read/Stories

Diagnosing Faria

Alexandre Dumas’s 19th century French novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, doesn’t usually make the list of standard medical texts but perhaps it should not be so readily dismissed. It captures the spirit of an age when medicine was undergoing a revolution...

18 September 2022
8 mins read
1
Stories

A seagull with a sore leg: How having a shared focus improves staff wellbeing

Serena Strickland reflects on the effect of an avian visitor on a GP practice

26 August 2022
4 mins read
Arts/Stories

Tea at 4:30, with milk?

‘Yes dad, a little dash like normal.’ I never knew how to reply. Was he asking a question? Was he just making a statement, did he even want milk in it? Had he forgotten how he had his tea? I never knew

13 August 2022
6 mins read
Stories

In sickness and in health? A transient experience of the sick role

The waves of nausea as I lay in the hotel bed were incessant. Away on a long-planned holiday to New York with my partner, the morning sickness had hit at week 6 of my pregnancy ...

9 July 2022
6 mins read
Stories

Telling a good story

You and I may observe the same event but give different accounts based on our own understanding of what we’ve seen, influenced by how we felt, our past experiences and values. Ben Hoban discusses storytelling as a clinical phenomenon.

5 July 2022
6 mins read
Arts/Opinion/Stories

Heroes with bifocals

Ben Hoban reflects on general practice as a 'Hero's journey,' but argues that this must be reconciled with the patient narrative. Don your narrative bifocals!

8 June 2022
5 mins read
Opinion/Stories

Retrospectoscopy

How is it that something can seem so obvious in hindsight, when at the time it was anything but obvious? Ben Hoban shows us his retrospectoscope!

2 June 2022
4 mins read
Random/Stories

Wigan Pier, Saint George and streptomycin

John Brooks discusses the experiences, the writings, the politics and the health of George Orwell

15 May 2022
7 mins read
Arts/Bright Ideas and Innovation/Stories

The right write rite

Are you a healthcare professional looking for a creative community of writers? Neil Wilson introduces the Society of Medical Writers

30 April 2022
6 mins read
Opinion/Stories/Undergraduate

Finding primary care in the surgical ICU

Aldis H. Petriceks finds a sense of primary care at an unsuccessful resuscitation in the surgical ICU

17 April 2022
6 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Opinion/Stories

A visit to the dentist…

For Arthur Kaufman, a visit to the dentist inspired a literary journey in creative writing. Could you be inspired to do better?

10 April 2022
8 mins read
Stories

“Choosing Wisely…” A parable of the NHS

Samar Razaq shares a parable of travellers in search of health and in fear of disease

5 February 2022
10 mins read
Stories

The RCGP saves the world in time for Christmas – again!

This is now the second time Max Phobius has saved the world in time for Christmas. It's all beginning to look a bit unlikely.......

24 December 2021
10 mins read
Stories

Empathy PRN

Chloe Webster, a trainee, reflects on a "Formula One speed" surgical ward round where she suddenly rediscovered the magic of General Practice.

6 November 2020
5 mins read
Stories

A BJGP Christmas Carol: Part Five

Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is part five of a five part series. You can download the full five part version for free as an epub or mobi file for use with your Kindle or other e-reader. Stave

21 December 2018
19 mins read
2
Stories

A BJGP Christmas Carol: Part Four

Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is part four of a five part series. If you can’t wait and like to binge read then you can download the full five part version for free as an epub or mobi

20 December 2018
16 mins read
1
Stories

A BJGP Christmas Carol: Part Three

Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is part three of a five part series. If you can’t wait and like to binge read then you can download the full five part version for free as an epub or mobi

19 December 2018
17 mins read
1
Stories

A BJGP Christmas Carol: Part Two

Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is part two of a five part series. If you can’t wait and like to binge read then you can download the full five part version for free as an epub or mobi file for

18 December 2018
14 mins read
1
Stories

A BJGP Christmas Carol: Part One

Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is part one of a five part series. If you can’t wait and like to binge read then you can download the full five part version for free as an epub or mobi

17 December 2018
14 mins read
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