‘A troubled and eccentric GP with a profound vision’: The story that has stayed with me for over 50 years
There are many books that have influenced my life, starting with the Famous Five series and then the New English Bible. But during my time…
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GP registrar pressured grieving widow to cry on video to prove his empathy: UK tribunal
A trainee GP who pressured a recently bereaved widow to cry so he could display his empathy skills for an assessment video has been suspended…
Scammers try to steal money from GPs buying tickets to international medical conference
Scammers are targeting GPs with fraudulent versions of an upcoming conference being staged by the World Organisation of Family Doctors. Organisers have urged GPs who…
No physiology, immunology or microbiology: Physician associates sold a lie about their clinical training
Thousands of physician associates — seen as bargain-basement replacements for doctors in the UK — are being sold lies about the true extent of their…
Are dispensing doctors the right response to prescribing pharmacists?
Whenever pharmacists push further into diagnosing and prescribing, GPs ask the question. If the prescriber-dispenser divide is truly an ancient notion, rather than pharmacists prescribing,…
GP faked assault to get patient off his books: UK tribunal
A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has…
‘Act of desperation’: GPs take industrial action to protest NHS funding
GPs in England are taking industrial action to protest a 1.9% NHS funding rise, after a near-unanimous vote from the British Medical Association’s GP members.…
Is this surgeon still the ‘face of NHS idiocy’?
Mr Joseph Meirion Thomas is a British surgeon who knows how to wield a knife — particularly when it comes to his GP colleagues. A…
Why are UK doctors taking legal action against their own medical board?
One of the questions bamboozling doctors in the UK is why the country’s medical board is about to start regulating unregistered practitioners pretending to be…
The place where ‘cancer specialists’ and ‘physicians’ don’t need medical degrees — welcome to the NHS
It has been described as a “duplicitous, dishonest and reckless” new low for doctors in the UK — a poster campaign directed at patients with…
