The wild reason an orthopaedic surgeon was calling about my patient’s breast biopsy
Timing can be everything in making the diagnosis of a rare condition. It was the weekend, so my patient presented to the local hospital ED.…
Timing can be everything in making the diagnosis of a rare condition. It was the weekend, so my patient presented to the local hospital ED.…
In my early 20s, I struggled with my weight. Looking back now, I can see how much of this was due to anxiety. × Welcome…
Complaints in healthcare are serious business. Not only are patients and families increasingly likely to complain, the avenues for expressing dissatisfaction are more accessible and…
Recently I’ve been considering the concept of unlimited growth. In medicine, unlimited growth is the hallmark of cancer, in which cells continue to multiply without…
From a book on hypertension written by two economists through to a hilarious hospital classic, doctors say books have saved them and even inspired their…
One of the many terrors of general practice is the fear of missing a needle in a haystack. How do we find the potentially harmful…
Dr Marguerite Tracy wants to convince GPs that patients turning up at the consult with the dreaded list can be a positive, not heartsink, moment.…
Professor Trish Greenhalgh’s general practice parable goes like this. The scene is Britain in the late 1990s. The patient is a first-time mother. ×…
Dr Christopher Hughes’ first exposure to general practice came in 1977, a placement at Greenpoint Medical Centre as part of his degree at the University…
It was a WONCA presentation unlike any other, punctuated by laughs, applause, and even a call for an encore, with not a PowerPoint slide in…
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