When Peverley met Copperfield...
18 Aug 10
Pulse star columnist Dr Tony Copperfield's new book Sick Notes is reviewed - by Pulse's other star columnist, Dr Phil Peverley
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Here’s some feedback for you
11 Jun 10
Phil knows exactly what he thinks about the pen- pushers who keep sending him evaluation forms
Hung up on the election
12 May 10
As he watches the election results roll in, Phil takes a look back on 13 years of practising under Labour - and doesn't like what he sees...
Brown’s last stand on access
14 Apr 10
Phil is incensed by the Prime Minister’s desperate promise to further extend GP hours
Just get out of my way
10 Mar 10
Phil offers three tales of NHS obstruction to the patient journey, ranging from irritating to tragic
What I think about... me
10 Feb 10
Phil enjoys filling in the patient survey on his own practice – until the negativity gets too much
The straight road not taken
09 Dec 09
Phil's patient has had an exhausting journey through the NHS - right back to where he started
Bacon vacations are a swine
04 Nov 09
Phil is in a huff and a puff about the swine flu hotline and all the ‘hog holidays’ it has brought.
Choose and Book advert is lipstick on a pig
06 Oct 09
It’s cheap-looking, inaccurate and patronising – and worst of all Phil’s taxes are paying for it.
Change is a man's game
02 Sep 09
Phil‘s female registrars have all been good doctors but it’s the men who want to battle the status quo
My nightmare next door
22 Jun 10
Every GP has a patient from hell. Phil’s latest has just moved in – next door to the surgery
It’s time to pick up the tab
21 May 10
Phil is furious that the NHS, and GPs in particular, are about to pay for Gordon Brown’s profligacy
Seeing votes in patient notes
28 Apr 10
Phil sees the Labour party's 'cancer postcards' as a horrifying vision of how the impending Summary Care Record could be abused
Self-treatment for dummies
24 Mar 10
Phil’s got to the root of why 20% of GP consultations are for self-limiting conditions
Medics are not murderers
23 Feb 10
Phil is furious that, in publicly confessing to suffocating his terminally ill lover, Ray Gosling implicated all doctors as his willing accomplices
A distinct shortage of grit
27 Jan 10
Phil is appalled at his wussy patients who use a sprinkling of snow as an excuse not to turn up to their appointments
Just leave us to be brilliant
18 Nov 09
Even as UK GPs are praised for world-class care, Phil sees red at the latest proposal to deskill them
My diagnosis: toxic tabloiditis
07 Oct 09
Phil made the mistake of reading the Daily Mail’s website today – and he’s still seething
Welcome to my world, son
16 Sep 09
This work experience teenager is scruffy and uncouth – so why do Phil‘s punters adore him?
One way to lose the pounds
05 Aug 09
A GP's life is a sedentary one, so Phil has joined his local gym - but just the thought of going is stressing him so much he's losing weight
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It's the listening that counts
01 Jul 09
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It’s a beautiful game
03 Jun 09
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Flu pandemics are inevitable, so why are we so Ill-prepared?
07 May 09
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Dispatches from the front line
01 Apr 09
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'Doctor, my boyfriend is really a German bodybuilder called Bridgit'
04 Mar 09
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Until death do us fall apart
04 Feb 09
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Care Record is a scandal waiting to happen
10 Dec 08
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End this health and safety madness so we can have some good old-fashioned fun
12 Nov 08
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Any excuse for a day off
15 Oct 08
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Stick that in your polyclinic consultation
17 Sep 08
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If GPs are so evil, how come we're so popular?
13 Aug 08
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Memories of playing House in my junior doctor days
18 Jun 08
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Maybe life as a GP isn't so bad after all
21 May 08
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Do a day like this, then try calling GPs lazy and overpaid
23 Apr 08
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Sacrificed on the altar of patient choice
19 Mar 08
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Runaround at the walk-in centre
19 Feb 08
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Now you're taking the piss
17 Jun 09
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It's just another ruddy virus
20 May 09
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Now, what was I saying?
15 Apr 09
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Look who's not talking
25 Mar 09
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Keeping it in the GP family
18 Feb 09
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Tackling the qualifiers: My exam nightmares
14 Jan 09
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Pharmacist, know thy place
26 Nov 08
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Call yourself a consultant?
29 Oct 08
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Choose and Book advert is lipstick on a pig
01 Oct 08
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A case of post-holiday blues
03 Sep 08
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Doctor rating website is trial by tittle-tattle
23 Jul 08
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Sorry, I don't do teeth
04 Jun 08
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Brown's clever - but I hate him for it
08 May 08
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Homeopathy is rubbish - and you can't have it
09 Apr 08
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Pompous BMA outspun by debased Government
04 Mar 08
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Why you have to vote No
05 Feb 08
