Some musings

  • MONTY PYTHON AND THE NHS
  • THE FOUR CLINICIANS SKETCH
  • THE DEAD NHS SKETCH
  • the day LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD got sick
  • HOPE FOR A NEW YEAR
  • TWO OF A KIND?
  • AND ALL BECAUSE…
  • WORKING IN A HEALTHCARE HINTERLAND
  • A CRICKETING CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY
  • A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY. PART 5: in which all is not lost
  • A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY. Part Four u0026#8211; in which Scrooge glimpses the future.
  • ADVENT 2022: PART 4: JOY
  • PADDINGTON AND THE AILING ELDERLY RELATIVE
  • ‘TWAS THE NHS WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS u0026#8211; 2022
  • A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY u0026#8211; Part Three: in which Scrooge faces a present reality.
  • A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY u0026#8211; Part Two: in which Scrooge remembers the good old days.
  • A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY u0026#8211; Part One: in which Scrooge plans the demise of county cricket.
  • ADVENT 2022: PART 2: PEACE
  • a positive post…because not absolutely everything about General Practice is bad
  • ADVENT 2022: PART 1: HOPE
  • THE THREE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS GRUFF u0026#8211; IT’S NO FAIRY TALE.
  • I’m a Government Minister…hold me accountable for my actions!’
  • HAIKU
  • ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY, IS IT ENOUGH TO JUST REMEMBER?
  • AT HALLOWEEN, O DEATH WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY?
  • I’M A GP…GET ME OUT OF HERE!
  • EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT
  • DR JONATHAN HARKER AND THE POST EVENING SURGERY HOME VISIT
  • GENERAL PRACTICE u0026#8211; IS TIME RUNNING OUT?
  • AT LAST…AN EXPLANATION
  • THE DR MUNGO CHRONICLES
  • SCOOBY DOO AND THE DESERTED MEDICAL CENTRE
  • GENERAL PRACTICE u0026#8211; STILL A SWEET SORROW
  • order out of chaos
  • THE GREAT CRICKET SELL OFF?
  • AT THE SEASON’S END…
  • A DAY AT THE CRICKET
  • FRODO AND THE FORMAT OF POWER
  • HOW THE GRINCH STOLE FROM COUNTY CRICKET u0026#8211; OR AT LEAST TRIED TO
  • SCOOBY DOO AND THE MYSTERY OF THE DESERTED CRICKET GROUND
  • I’LL MISS HER NOW SHE’S GONE
  • WE WENT TO THE ANIMAL FAIR: The diary of a novice grandparent.
  • When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Good Enough
  • A Cricket Tea Kind Of Day
  • ASSISTED DYING u0026#8211; WE ALL NEED TO BE HAPPIER TO HELP
  • LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE
  • I’ve got a little CRICKET list
  • THE SOMERSET CRICKET PLAYERS EMPORIUM
  • BRIAN AND STUMPY VISIT THE REPAIR SHOP
  • IF ONLY…
  • A TALE OF TWO TONS
  • A SONG FOR BEN GREEN
  • A SONG FOR BRIAN
  • IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE
  • A CRICKET TAUNT
  • A DREAM OF AN ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
  • ENOUGH SAID…
  • COPING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT
  • IT’S COMING HOME…
  • HOPING IN THE ONE WE FEAR
  • Mr McGregor’s Revenge u0026#8211; A Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • POOR IMITATIONS
  • A Farewell to ‘Barns’
  • CONFESSION u0026#8211; GOOD FOR THE SOUL
  • Jeepy Leepy and the NHS
  • PREPARING WITH PADDINGTON
  • THE QUEEN WHO HAS A KING
  • smoke signals…
  • a lonely heart
  • the old surfer
  • ON KEEPING WHAT WE DARE NOT LOSE
  • LIFE AFTER LIFE
  • FAITH AND DOUBT
  • GENERAL PRACTICES ARE GO!
  • ON BEING OVERWHELMED
  • BAGPUSS AND THE NHS
  • GOOD FRIDAY 2022
  • BECAUSE THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
  • DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
  • Weeping with those who weep
  • GENERAL PRACTICE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
  • At Land’s End
  • A Hand Held
  • AN AUDIENCE WITH GRIEF
  • The Promise Keeper
  • Jesus wept
  • real power
  • BUT THIS I KNOW…
  • Dr Dog
  • THE STATE OF DISREPAIR SHOP
  • Light in the Darkness
  • DR WORDLE AND THE MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS
  • THE RAINBOW’S END
  • ‘GPs ARE RESPONSIBLE u0026#8211; IT’S TIME THEY WENT’
  • Stuck In The Middle With You
  • CHRISTMAS 2021
  • SCROOGE IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
  • GRAVE EXPECTATIONS
  • FROM A DISTANCE u0026#8211; REFLECTIONS AS THE NIGHTS START DRAWING IN
  • A GRIMM TALE
  • THE HAPPY PRACTICE u0026#8211; A CAUTIONARY TALE
  • THE WILD GP
  • THE THREE LITTLE GPs AND THE BIG BAD SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH
  • MY MOST FAVOURITE THINGS
  • A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
  • A GP CALLED PADDINGTON
  • THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER u0026#8211; ENDANGERED
  • MY LEAST FAVOURITE THINGS
  • On Managing Disappointment
  • ON APPROACHING ONE’S SELL BY DATE
  • ISN’T THAT LIKE LIFE…?
  • MR BENN u0026#8211; THE GP
  • HEARING THE GRASS GROW
  • On Call Days and Mondays
  • GPs u0026#8211; Do you remember?
  • BLEAK PRACTICE
  • SUMMERTIME
  • BAGGY WHITE COATS
  • GP KICKS
  • YESTERYEAR
  • What a wonderful job this can be…
  • ON BEING CRAZY BUSY u0026#8211; A TICKLISH PROBLEM
  • desolation row
  • My Back Pages
  • Getting in touch with your inner Womble.
  • A Hard Year For Us All
  • SHE’S THE PATIENT YOU STILL DON’T KNOW YOU HAVE
  • Reintroducing GPs Anonymous
  • someone left a cake out in the rain
  • together in line
  • the wrong patient
  • Easter Sunday 2021
  • Good Friday u0026#8211; 2021
  • The Repair Shop
  • Book Review: ‘The Book about Getting Older’, by Dr Lucy Pollock
  • Spare me a doctoru0026#8230;
  • On not remotely caring
  • WWJD u0026#8211; What Would Jack Do?
  • AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
  • Old Hands
  • ‘THE DIG’ u0026#8211; IT’S WELL WORTH IT
  • Vaccinating to remain Susceptible
  • Room Enough
  • SHOT OF LOVE
  • A Not So Shaggy Dog Story
  • The Dr Scrooge Chronicles
  • Gratitude and Regret
  • Yesterday and Today
  • A Pregnant Pause?
  • IF
  • I knew a man
  • What price resilience?
  • It’s A Wonderful GP Life
  • A TALE OF TWO PATIENTS
  • The Ten Demandments
  • THREE LOCKDOWN SONGS
  • Christmas u0026#8211; 2020
  • The Windhover
  • MONSTERS
  • ‘TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS u0026#8211; 2020
  • How the Grinch, and Covid, stole General Practice’s Christmas
  • Waiting patiently for the Lord
  • Faith in the time of Coronavirus u0026#8211; 4
  • The Lord is my Portion
  • Resting in Pieces
  • Why do bad things happen to good people? u0026#8211; a tentative suggestion.
  • Faith in the time of Coronavirus u0026#8211; 3
  • Longing for the pavilion u0026#8211; whilst enjoying a good innings.
  • I’ve got a little listu0026#8230;
  • THE VERY MODEL OF A GENERAL PRACTITIONER?
  • Water from a Rock
  • Masked
  • Coronavirus u0026#8211; a giant sized problem?
  • Luther and the Global Pandemic: On Becoming A Theologian of the Cross
  • patient
  • moving closer
  • SHE’S THE PATIENT YOU STILL DON’T KNOW YOU HAVE
  • crushed
  • The ‘Already’ and the ‘Not Yet’
  • She’s the patient you don’t know you have
  • beaten
  • Don’t forget to be ordinary, if you want to be happy.
  • How Covid-19 stole the cricket season
  • Something to feast your eyes on
  • Sleep Well?
  • True Love?
  • Three Chords And The Truth?
  • Rest Assured
  • Faith in the time of Coronavirus u0026#8211; 2
  • HOPE COMES FROM BELIEVING THE PROMISES OF GOD
  • I’m beginning to miss that, now that that’s beginning to go.
  • Easter Sunday
  • On Being Confronted by the Law
  • Reflections in the Darkness
  • Good Friday
  • Faith in the time of coronavirus
  • John 3:16
  • Mind the Gap
  • Some trust in chariotsu0026#8230;
  • But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope
  • Covid -19. Does it suggest we really did have the experience but miss the meaning?
  • ‘Twas the Day before Christmas
  • Because sometimes, not even chocolate is enough.
  • Three Times A Patient
  • Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine.
  • Introducing GPs Anonymous
  • Has anyone seen General Practice?
  • Something to reflect upon u0026#8211; are we too narcissistic?
  • Health u0026#8211; it’ll be the death of us. Is there institutional arrogance in the health service?
  • I’ll miss this when we’re gone
  • A Merry, and Resilient, Christmas u0026#8211; A Personal View.
  • Black Friday
  • How the Grinch stole General Practice’s Christmas
  • With great poweru0026#8230;
  • When the Joke’s on You
  • Somewhere over the rainbow?
  • A Language All Of Its Own.
  • Medical Stereotypes u0026#8211; not being defined by our mistakes.
  • The NHS u0026#8211; the ‘S’ is for ‘Service’ not ‘Slave’
  • For when we can’t see why.
  • Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency u0026#8211; Complete
  • Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency u0026#8211; Chapter Four
  • Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency u0026#8211; Chapter Three
  • Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency u0026#8211; Chapter Two
  • Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency u0026#8211; Chapter One
  • Desert Island Drugs
  • Measure for Measure u0026#8211; Appraisal for Appraisal
  • Unchained Malady
  • CONTACTLESS
  • Professor Ian Aird u0026#8211; A Time to Die?
  • EXPRESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM AND THE DRIVE FOR PERFECTION
  • Increasing anxiety – a relative certainty.
  • General Practice u0026#8211; a sweet sorrow
  • A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL u0026#8211; Stave One
  • A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL u0026#8211; Stave Two
  • A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL u0026#8211; Stave Three
  • A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL u0026#8211; Stave Four
  • A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL u0026#8211; Stave Five
  • ANTIDEPRESSANT PRESCRIBING u0026#8211; A NEW HIGH
  • THE LIFE I LEAD
  • T.S. Eliot, Jesus and the Paradox of the Christian Life.
  • NIKKI ALEXANDER u0026#8211; DR PERFECT?
  • SUFFERING u0026#8211; A PERSONAL VIEW
  • Be Drunk (Short Version)
  • Be Drunk u0026#8211; extended Theological version
  • Here’s to 2019
  • ‘TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS
  • GRACE IN A POLITICAL WORLD
  • Vanity Fair
  • Hoping to maintain resilience
  • SOMERSET CCC u0026#8211; GOOD FOR THE SOUL
  • ‘The Medical Condition’ or ‘Hannah Arendt is completely fine’
  • EVE OF THE RLODC FINAL LIMERICKS
  • A Primary Care Christmas Carol u0026#8211; Complete
  • Blaming it on the Boogie
  • THE ABOLITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE
  • Dark Reflections
  • It’s alright, Ma (I’m only GPing)
  • AND I GUESS THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES.
  • ‘Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.’
  • THE UNCOMFORTABLE PROFESSIONAL
  • DO WE CARE ABOUT SADNESS?
  • Advanced Access u0026#8211; a step in the wrong direction
  • Sense and Sensitivity
  • GENERAL PRACTICE u0026#8211; STILL MY BATTLEGROUND OF CHOICE
  • JUST IN CASE MEDICINE u0026#8211; THE DANGERS OF PRACTISING DEFENSIVELY
  • The Resurrection u0026#8211; is it just Rhubarb?
  • Toward maintaining a more compassionate resilience
  • An Inappropriate Blog? u0026#8211; I Hope You Like It
  • I’ll miss this when we’re gone? u0026#8211; extended theological version
  • The Sacrifice of Isaac u0026#8211; Law or Gospel?
  • ARE WE TOO BUSY TO BE HAPPY?
  • WE HAD THE EXPERIENCE BUT MISSED THE MEANING u0026#8211; Short Version
  • I’ll miss this when we’re gone? u0026#8211; extended theological version
  • IN LOVING MEMORY OF TRUTH
  • WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO DONu0026#8217;T FEEL TOUGH ENOUGH TO KEEP GOING?
  • Christmas
  • a silent tear
  • moving closer
  • Reflections on the death of Leonard Cohen
  • Unchained Malady
  • ‘Twas the Day before Christmas
  • Introducing GPs Anonymous
  • crushed
  • Advent
  • Who serves in a service?
  • Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine.
  • Introducing GPs Anonymous
  • BLEAK PRACTICE
  • What price resilience?
  • crushed
  • I knew a man
  • GP KICKS
  • ADVENT 2022: PART 3: LOVE
  • WHITHER TOMORROW?

    ‘For all our days that tear the heartLeave us nowhereFor all the years we left untoldHurt, we couldn’t hold much longer’ Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler I don’t know if it’s because of my ever greying hair or simply the result of wishful thinking on the part of those who are posing the question, but […]

    Peteaird

    January 28, 2023
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  • THE ABOLITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE

    Aristotle had it right when he asserted in his ‘Metaphysics’ that ‘Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary question’. More than 2000 years later, doctors would do well to listen to his advice. Before adopting each and every new advance that claims to be good for our patients, we should ask what […]

    Peteaird

    January 22, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • WHEN THERE’S NO NHS

    To the tune of ‘With God on our side’ by Bob Dylan. For twenty six years nowA GP I’ve beenAnd many’s the numberOf patients I’ve seenThey’ve come with their sicknessIn times of distressBut where will they go whenThere’s no NHS? Way back when I startedI always did knowTo those who required oneAn ambulance would goBut […]

    Peteaird

    January 20, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • TWO PHOTOS – BOTH ALIKE IN DIGNITY?

    Two photos taken nearly 50 years apart, the second snapped shortly before Christmas at a family gathering to celebrate my parents diamond wedding anniversary, delayed by two and half years due to a certain attention grabbing virus that’s been prevalent of late. Things to note: Discerning observers will also notice that I am the second […]

    Peteaird

    January 15, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • THE LIFE I LEAD

    THE LIFE I LEAD Some while ago I was fortunate enough to be sat in Exeter’s Northcott Theatre to see the opening night of ‘The Life I Lead’. It is a brilliantly written play by James Kettle performed single handedly with equal brilliance by Miles Jupp. Through a conversation with the audience, it tells the […]

    Peteaird

    January 15, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • Professor Ian Aird – A Time to Die?

    Recently I came across Hugh McLeave’s biography of Professor Ian Aird entitled ‘A Time to Heal’. In it Aird is described as having been ‘a brilliant surgeon, an inspired teacher and one of the great medical personalities of his generation’. He was also, if I have my family tree correct, my grandfather’s cousin. Born in […]

    Peteaird

    January 14, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine.

    ‘Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for?’ Eleanor Oliphant may be perfectly fine – but Eleanor Rigby is not. Maybe you’re not either. It’s […]

    Peteaird

    January 12, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • DOCTEUR CREOSOTE

    Dr Creosote enters the room. Worn down by the years that he has been taking on the burdens of others, he has obviously failed to look after his own health. Looked down on by those who can barely conceal their disgust for what he has become, he struggles to make it to his table but, […]

    Peteaird

    January 9, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • MONTY PYTHON AND THE NHS

    Recently I came into possession of the following, a transcript of a recent conversation that took place at a Somerset GP practice. The shouted interchange was between the Secretary of State for Health [SSH] and the senior partner [SP], the latter calling down his responses from the roof of the building, through an open velux […]

    Peteaird

    January 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • THE FOUR CLINICIANS SKETCH

    (It’s approaching 8pm and four tired looking clinicians are preparing to go home at the end of what has been another busy day. The only refreshment they have access to is that provided by the decrepit looking machine that is positioned in the corner of the room in which they are sitting) C1: This coffee, […]

    Peteaird

    January 6, 2023
    Uncategorized
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