Doctors need empathy
Empathy in clinical practice is an essential component of the doctor-patient relationship. This is the understanding of how another human…
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Saying goodbye to paper records
The challenge of making data and personal medical information available to individual patients and clinicians in a secure timely way…
Looking for lung cancer
Lung cancer has very few symptoms at early stage and many people dismiss it as a possibility. We know that…
Baggy clues to malnutrition
Around three million people in the UK are affected by malnutrition and one in three adults who are admitted to…
Why multiple jeopardy is wrong
Despite having observed at first hand the effects of patient complaint procedures against doctors for several years now, I have…
The best bit about my job
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and a diagnosis of this disease usually means a short…
Open access for asthmatics
Asthma patients from surgeries who have good access to primary care, such as in their GP surgery, are less likely…
Flex for GPs
'I retired from medicine at the age of 73. I would have liked to work for longer as a locum…
A national health concierge service
As a busy GP, I am fully aware and exposed to the everyday pressures faced by our National Health Service,…
Shortest consultation ever
Shortest consultation ever. An elderly gentleman walked into my consulting room and sat down. "Morning doctor." And good morning to…
Doctor in the House
When I was offered the job as the TV doctor on BBC One’s Doctor in the House series, I was initially…
Who wants to be a GP?
I'm not sure I actually want to, however, this is my role. I am a human being sitting in a doctor's…