When we train clinicians merely to manage autistic patients rather than to understand and support them, we risk reinforcing stigma and inadvertently causing harm. As healthcare professionals, we have a responsibility to listen to, learn from, and advocate for autistic people.
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Despite its proven effectiveness, access to the HPV vaccine remains limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Zeynep Sude Yeşildağ calls on global primary healthcare to do better!
As both an academic GP and faith leader, I've found that bringing together different knowledge systems can significantly enhance patient care and community engagement. It may offer fresh perspectives for today's healthcare challenges.
"This article will remind readers of the benefits of these technologies to health care and public health, before drawing attention to the harms of AI to human wellbeing."
As both an academic GP and faith leader, I've found that bringing together different knowledge systems can significantly enhance patient care and community engagement. It may offer fresh perspectives for today's healthcare challenges.
"This article will remind readers of the benefits of these technologies to health care and public health, before drawing attention to the harms of AI to human wellbeing."
Alongside the elation and excitement of reaching Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) however, is a feeling of being somewhat cast adrift. There is a distinct lack of celebration and more importantly perhaps, a distinct lack of support.
The recent introduction of the UK’s first Drug Consumption Room (DCR) in Glasgow is a pioneering harm reduction initiative, offering hope for improved healthcare outcomes for some of the city’s most vulnerable populations. Paul McNamara and Faiza Ahmad discuss the benefits.
As general practice increasingly offers ‘digital-first’ models, it is vital we ask: who are we leaving behind?
If the only reason a doctor labels symptoms as psychosomatic is that they can’t come up with a better explanation, they might as well blame the fairies at the bottom of the garden... Ben Hoban will make you think!
"This article will remind readers of the benefits of these technologies to health care and public health, before drawing attention to the harms of AI to human wellbeing."
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In this episode, we discuss use of AI in lung cancer diagnosis.
In this episode, we talk to Dr Afrodita Marcu about cancer diagnosis in pregnancy.
Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literature
In this episode, we discuss testosterone treatment in HSDD.
Elke Hausmann proposes a way of looking at Long Covid and ME that might engender a better understanding in GPs for patients living with these devastating and life changing conditions.
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O'Sullivan and others fail to recognise the likelihood that most Long Covid patients will have already tried psychological and behavioural approaches ... the idea that there might be issues that, if addressed, could cure you, is the only thing we
Re-reading my review, I can tell that I was very careful even then not to present this approach as a 'cure' for Long Covid, but as a promising approach to manage symptoms better while waiting for a cure ... However,
"People living with long COVID symptoms should be encouraged to seek support from primary care, and primary care clinicians must be responsive to patient need." - Carolyn A Chew-Graham and colleagues provide a summary and analysis of long COVID patient
"Nexus is a powerful, brilliantly acted film [...] about the impact of COVID-19 on young people's mental health, eating-related coping strategies, and the power of social connection. I recommend sharing it with colleagues, patients, and their families."
Despite its proven effectiveness, access to the HPV vaccine remains limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Zeynep Sude Yeşildağ calls on global primary healthcare to do better!
...I sensed that they also lived in a different dimension of time. The soft chattering of the patients waiting and sitting on the grass outside the clinic had an unhurried acceptance of just waiting. Storied reflection from rural general practice in South Africa.
We consider teaching medical ethics in conflict zones to be an act of solidarity and a profound commitment to addressing global health inequities. By nurturing ethical reasoning and fostering collaboration, initiatives like this play a crucial role in rebuilding resilient healthcare systems
Three years of war have tested the very limits of Ukraine’s healthcare system. Yet, they have also revealed an extraordinary capacity for resilience, adaptation, and innovation. As the war continues, investing in primary care remains essential—not only for health but for hope.
Family medicine, by its very nature, often serves as a crucial counterpoint to the potential overreach of the purely biomedical model. Yuya Yokota reflects on the benefits of applied phenomenology to the GP consultation.
As both an academic GP and faith leader, I've found that bringing together different knowledge systems can significantly enhance patient care and community engagement. It may offer fresh perspectives for today's healthcare challenges.
Sadiq introduces the combination of both conditions, presenting the ‘shared and distinct features of autism and ADHD’ which he suggests ‘originate from separate yet intertwined pathways’.
The recent introduction of the UK’s first Drug Consumption Room (DCR) in Glasgow is a pioneering harm reduction initiative, offering hope for improved healthcare outcomes for some of the city’s most vulnerable populations. Paul McNamara and Faiza Ahmad discuss the benefits.
As general practice increasingly offers ‘digital-first’ models, it is vital we ask: who are we leaving behind?
If the only reason a doctor labels symptoms as psychosomatic is that they can’t come up with a better explanation, they might as well blame the fairies at the bottom of the garden... Ben Hoban will make you think!
Despite its proven effectiveness, access to the HPV vaccine remains limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Zeynep Sude Yeşildağ calls on global primary healthcare to do better!
Despite the legal and professional requirements to treat individuals with SpLDs without disadvantage, alongside evidence supporting earlier diagnosis & supportive strategies, the Committee of General Practice Education Directors (COGPED) still do not recommend screening of GP Registrars (GPRs) at the commencement of training. Adrian Hucks
Perhaps it is my patient population, my personality or perhaps it is true of all General Practice, but I notice that nearly all my consultations touch on mental health in some way. Whilst reading the book, I have managed to accept the familiar unnatural feel
Aldabra Stifiuc-Andronic and colleagues reflect on the health implications of the cosmetics industry and public awareness of cosmetic ingredients.
One of the first questions my GP supervisor asked was “What did you notice on the way here?” ... Her question appeared simple at first but revealed, what I thought to be, the greatest skill in being a GP; the art of noticing. Janani Lambotharan
In this episode, we discuss use of AI in lung cancer diagnosis.
In this episode, we talk to Dr Afrodita Marcu about cancer diagnosis in pregnancy.
In this episode, we discuss testosterone treatment in HSDD.
"One idea circulating was a character called Dr Brain, a seemingly mild GP who turned invisible in the sunlight ‘... along with all his appointments’, he quipped to parents’ polite laughter. Dr Brain might well be a good name for a children’s supervillain
Diagnosis ... provides structure to a narrative of dysfunction, or a picture of disarray, and imposes official order, sorting out the real from the imagined, the valid from the feigned, the significant from the insignificant ... In Life and Times this month
The door is barely opened. ‘I’ve a bone to pick with you’, wheezes Mick through the widening gap ...
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