"OUR DUTY TO OUR PATIENTS."

It's our duty!

What is our 'duty of care'?

Clinical scenario You have just started in post with a single-handed GP. You like the work, the patient group and all the staff you work with. After a while, however, you begin to feel just a little uneasy following a number of remarks from patients: “The doctor did not listen”, “I am not sure why the doctor prescribed this” and “I’d like a second opinion”. You have also noticed in passing on a...

Writing to our patients.

The 2022 GP: our profession, our patients, our future.

For the last decade or two general practice, indeed medicine in general, has been manufacturing ‘tools’ as if a 21st century industrial revolution was under way. Am I alone in my distaste and negative reactions, feeling that in most cases the word ‘tool’ is now used in a most ignorant and inappropriate way? Most patients know exactly what tools are, and use them to good effect in the real world...

Thanks to Our Peer-Reviewers in 2016