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Emotional Intelligence: Or Why Crying in the Toilet Might Actually Be CPD
We teach medical students a lot of things: how to take bloods, how not to offend a consultant, how to drink enough coffee to survive but...
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Laughter as Medicine (and Other Dangerous Prescriptions)
“Laughter is the very best medicine.”Remember that when your appendix bursts next week.— "Weird Al" Yankovic Humour in medicine isn’t...
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Doctor, My Cat Has IBS: Revisiting the Resilient GP
There are some documents that age like milk, others like wine. The infamous 2015 “ Inappropriate Demands on GPs ” article by Resilient GP...
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The Death of Trust: A GP's View on Medical Misinformation
We live in the age of information — which, unfortunately, means we also live in the age of misinformation . As a GP, I’ve had...
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Complaints: The Tomahawk and the Truth
There’s a line in Hamilton — yes, the musical, not the man — about trying to put out a fire from inside the house. That’s what complaints...
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So You Still Want to Be a Doctor?
A reflective blog on telling the truth about medicine without killing the dream A few years ago, just after I'd made the jump from renal...
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