A plethora of partialists
31 Aug 10
Jobbing Doctor mourns the demise of the General Physician
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Why I am still on-call
16 Aug 10
Most GPs were relieved to get rid of the responsibility for 24-hour care, but there are still some patients who need the Jobbing Doctor's mobile number
The invisible man returns
29 Jul 10
Taking back responsibilty for out-of-hours is a poisoned chalice, says the Jobbing Doctor - and primary care tsar Dr David Colin-Thomé should know better than to champion it
The trials and tribulations of nurses
16 Jul 10
A practice nurse's lot is very different from that of her hospital colleague, writes the Jobbing Doctor
Losing a child
01 Jul 10
Jobbing Doctor looks at the saddest experience a GP can have - should you retain the professional 'face' or show your feelings?
A plush white elephant
17 Jun 10
Shag pile and pot plants do not a surgery make, says Jobbing Doctor.
Not a hospital doctor
28 May 10
Over 30 years ago, Jobbing Doctor came to a decision over his future career. He made the right one.
New faces, same old rubbish
14 May 10
Jobbing Doctor ponders on whether the election of a new Government will change anything in the NHS.
Brown, bigots and NHS budget cuts
29 Apr 10
The Jobbing Doctor feels sorry for Gordon Brown - but his Rochdale gaffe was symptomatic of a wider problem
The dial-a-GP mentality
14 Apr 10
Jobbing Doctor has been watching the election, and is less than impressed with politicians' latest wheeze
I don't give a damn what NICE say
23 Aug 10
Jobbing Doctor looks at good reasons for referring onto specialist care, and when you needn't.
The era of the duckogram
09 Aug 10
Using a clinical examination to make a diagnosis may be old-fashioned, but it is still a central part of general practice says Jobbing Doctor
A dinosaur and his drugs
26 Jul 10
Many of the drugs the Jobbing Doctor learned to prescribe as a medical student have fallen by the wayside - but not always for good reason
Listen up, Mr Lansley. Most GPs don't give a fig about commissioning
08 Jul 10
The mood music from the new Government may sound great - but Jobbing Doctor has a nasty feeling we've been here before
A difficult decision
23 Jun 10
Jobbing Doctor's patient wants advice about a procedure he knows nothing about - what to do?
So, which part of my practice should we cut, exactly?
07 Jun 10
The Jobbing Doctor is struggling to see how NHS cuts can be implemented on the ground without harming patient care. But there is one place they could start...
What to expect in the coming months
06 May 10
Never mind the result - GPs face a bleak post-election future, the Jobbing Doctor fears
The tipping point
23 Apr 10
Should he stay or should he go? Jobbing Doctor has retirement on his mind again
Proud to be doing something
01 Apr 10
Jobbing Doctor plans his retirement from general practice and decides now is the time to join a political demonstration
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If my SHA fell into a big hole in the ground...
26 Mar 10
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Never glad confident morning again
14 Mar 10
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Goodbye to all that
23 Feb 10
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Why out-of-hours care is such a disaster
09 Feb 10
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Why general practice is seen as the easy option
25 Jan 10
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Call me prejudiced, but surgeons make the worst GPs
11 Jan 10
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Sir Liam
18 Dec 09
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How do you measure quality in general practice?
07 Dec 09
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'Children's GPs'? Let's keep the 'general' in general practice
16 Nov 09
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Sometimes I only get one shot at getting it right
30 Oct 09
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Trigger Likes French Nudes, and other useful mnemonics
15 Oct 09
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Why I blog
27 Sep 09
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The crass populism of 'rating' GPs online
15 Sep 09
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One of my GP registrars is being bullied...
03 Sep 09
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Where have all the partnerships gone?
19 Aug 09
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What's left to cut?
31 Jul 09
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Goodbye Lord Darzi (you won't be missed)
17 Jul 09
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It takes a GP to see the bigger picture
09 Jul 09
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Psychiatric services are mired in managerial treacle
19 Jun 09
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Beckham could better PCT's best breastfeeding efforts
08 Jun 09
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Explaining things to patients is like eating an elephant
26 May 09
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The unbearable weightiness of being a GP
11 May 09
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My patient needed a hug, so I gave her a hug
28 Apr 09
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The three ages of general practice
15 Apr 09
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Statistics may be dull, but they're key to the screening debate
30 Mar 09
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You don't fatten a pig by weighing it
16 Mar 09
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Who should I vote for?
18 Mar 10
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The blame game, and the people who play it
26 Feb 10
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Transforming community services – for the worse
18 Feb 10
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Holding court at a case conference
29 Jan 10
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This is car crash policy-making
14 Jan 10
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What we have lost
04 Jan 10
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Back to the future
14 Dec 09
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Learning to live in a complaints culture
30 Nov 09
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The truth about David Nutt
05 Nov 09
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Finding fault with the system
22 Oct 09
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Why politicians don't think we're worth the money we earn
12 Oct 09
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Lies, damn lies and management consultants
22 Sep 09
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The McKinsey report softened us up. Get ready for McKinsey Mark II
10 Sep 09
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Why I lost interest in alternative medicine
26 Aug 09
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How not to manage an influenza outbreak? Let me count the ways.
07 Aug 09
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Swine flu - box ticked
23 Jul 09
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Survival strategies for the extra swine flu workload
13 Jul 09
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Should we be holding swine flu parties?
29 Jun 09
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Dentists as worried as GPs about future of their profession
15 Jun 09
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There are times when doing nothing can be meaningful and positive
04 Jun 09
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Senior partner's departure a sad sign of the times
18 May 09
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Swine flu has triggered an epidemic of media hysteria
05 May 09
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Margaret Haywood should have been praised, not pilloried
20 Apr 09
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Where are all the decent GPs of the future?
06 Apr 09
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Career fear the reason why no doctor blew whistle on Mid Staffs
20 Mar 09
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Why being 'my GP' to a patient will secure our future
10 Mar 09
