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The face before the case: Levinas and the family physician

1 September 2026
The face is the presence of the other who addresses me before I have fully understood them. It is a call. It says, silently and insistently: do not reduce me to an object, a category, or a case. In this sense, ethics begins not with a rule, but with an encounter.
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Pebbles

She carries it over her shoulder, and must decide, does she take the heavy sack home and find a space in her little house for those pebbles? Or does she carry them over the hill and lay them by the
31 August 2026

The meaning of joy

Joy is apparently not simply the passive absence of burnout, but a proactive presence of purpose, autonomy, safety, belonging, equity and camaraderie. Emilie Couchman explores the possibilities.
29 August 2026

Opinion and Clinical

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Reading the meter

On the other side of the desk was someone I could only describe as grey. I’m not talking about their clothes or hair, or even their skin colour, although in fact it was oddly difficult to put a finger on any of
24 August 2026

Desire Paths in Patient Care

Desire paths in primary care, are those informal, patient-driven routes through services that emerge outside of prescribed systems. They highlight the importance of communication skills in shaping access and experience.
19 August 2026
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Nine to Five

And yet, somehow, work — the thing that most adults spend the majority of their waking hours doing — often gets treated as an afterthought. A background detail.
18 August 2026

Book Reviews

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Exhibition review: A Second Life by Tracey Emin

"Emin, through her art, has converted the chaos generated from sexual abuse and poverty in early life into a beautiful lens for us to understand ourselves and our patients better." - Hector Watson and Elizabeth Walton review Tracey Emin's A Second Life, exhibiting at Tate
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International

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Medical tourism: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Medical tourism doesn’t reduce NHS workload. It splits it. The funded, planned, well-resourced part of care happens elsewhere. The complications, the uncertainty, the chronic follow-up land back in general practice. Without warning. Without resource. And without anyone having agreed to it.
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Gatekeepers at the exit

General practitioners, while bearing uncertainty about the need for specialist intervention, sustain continuous and comprehensive relationships with patients. I would argue that super-aged societies also require gatekeepers at the exit from medicine.
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Long Read

Trainees and students

When good doctors fail exams

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One lesson many trainees learn too late is that medicine cannot be our entire identity ... Because when our entire identity depends on our performance, every setback becomes a crisis.
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BJGP Interviews

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BJGP News and Editorial Comment

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