Darzi review: GPs will face more competition

Face Video Competition

Person recognition using facial features, e.g., mug-shot images, has long been used in identity documents. However, due to the widespread use of web-cams and mobile devices embedded with a camera, it is now possible to realise facial video recognition, rather than resorting to just still images. In fact, facial video recognition offers many advantages over still image recognition; these include...

Jimmy: Searching for Free-Will (A Competition)

In this invited paper we describe a competition that aims to engage a wide section of society in the exploration of the future nature of technology. In particular the competition will examine one of the most controversial aspects of Artificial Intelligence, specifically the concept of freewill. What is freewill? Can machines achieve it? What are the consequences for society should that happen? ...

"Whistleblowers will face bullying from every side".

Do GPs know more than other doctors?

In this issue of the European Journal of General Practice, Barais et al., present their glossary of diagnostic reasoning terms [1]. COGITA is a European group of general practitioners (GPs) reflecting on diagnostic reasoning and decision making, perhaps more widely known under their popular name ‘The Gut Feeling Group’. References of their publications can be found on http://www.gutfeelings.eu....

Where have all the GPs gone – where will they go? Study of Finnish GPs

BACKGROUND In this paper a specialist in general practice is referred to as a general practitioner (GP). In Finland only half of all GPs work as a health centre physician. The present aim was to establish what the working places of specializing and specialized physicians in general practice are, and where they assume they will work in the future. METHODS The study population comprised 5,357 p...