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Who decides what counts as illness?

25 February 2026
Patients’ apologies for “wasting time” are not personal quirks but learned responses to a system that often treats unexplained symptoms as data rather than lived experience.
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Let’s just do some bloods…

Anyone can implement a protocol. Anyone can order a blood test. The real skill of a primary care clinician is in navigating the complexity and finding a helpful path forward for the unique individual in front of us.
23 February 2026

Opinion and Clinical

Let’s just do some bloods…

Anyone can implement a protocol. Anyone can order a blood test. The real skill of a primary care clinician is in navigating the complexity and finding a helpful path forward for the unique individual in front of us.
23 February 2026

The consultation beneath the consultation

I almost missed it. My instinct was to dive into the prescription screen. But something in her silence caught me. I paused and softened my voice. “You seem like you’re carrying a lot today.”
20 February 2026
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Ode to Diagnosis

Lines written by a doctor, after an elderly man presents with a positive PSA test, trying to decide what to do next. A poem.
6 February 2026

Book Reviews

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

In many respects, Kelson embodies the idealised GP of cultural consciousness: an easy-to-talk-to, principled eccentric... Set against the film’s graphic, meandering violence, Kelson’s permanence echoes reassuring familiarity.
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Icarus Plummeting

Zigmond mercilessly describes the ways in which our healthcare systems have made us less able to listen to the patient’s experience, less able to see their experience in the context of their life, their family and their social circumstances.
2 mins read

Book review: How Animals Heal Us

"How Animals Heal Us is a deeply heartfelt work from an author with lived experience of both devastating mental ill health and the restorative power of animal friendship. It contains uplifting and joyful anecdotes of animal companionship and ministration. It is also, at times, a
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International

Long Read

We need to talk about dying

"Taking dying and death out of the solely medical domain, becoming joint partners in caring for the dying patient in the broadest sense, facilitates personalised and holistic care, and creates opportunity for a more relational and compassionate interaction ..."
15 mins read

Trainees and students

Are we judging GP registrars on their outfits?

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Professionalism may not be a discrete domain on the mark scheme, yet it shapes how registrars are assessed, creating a standard that remains open to personal interpretation. And when that interpretation is shaped by assumptions about religion, culture, gender, or identity, attire can become an
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BJGP Interviews

BJGP Interviews Podcast

BJGP TV | Research

BJGP News and Editorial Comment

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