Sometimes we GPs can get quite attached to our patients.

It’s probably no accident that many of us, having pursued a career based on helping others, tend to want to save people, sometimes from themselves.

We are ideally placed to know a lot about our patients, especially those for whom we care over many years, but at the same time there is obviously a limit to what we can ultimately do for them.

I had a patient many years ago who was desperately ill with meningococcal sepsis.