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On Managing Disappointment
ON APPROACHING ONE’S SELL BY DATE
What a wonderful job this can be…
ON BEING CRAZY BUSY – A TICKLISH PROBLEM
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My Back Pages
Getting in touch with your inner Womble.
A Hard Year For Us All
Reintroducing GPs Anonymous
someone left a cake out in the rain
together in line
the wrong patient
Easter Sunday 2021
Good Friday – 2021
The Repair Shop
Book Review: ‘The Book about Getting Older’, by Dr Lucy Pollock
On not remotely caring
Spare me a doctor…
AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
Old Hands
WWJD – What Would Jack Do?
‘THE DIG’ – IT’S WELL WORTH IT
Room Enough
SHOT OF LOVE
Gratitude and Regret
Vaccinating to remain Susceptible
A Not So Shaggy Dog Story
Yesterday and Today
I knew a man
A Pregnant Pause?
IF
What price resilience?
It’s A Wonderful GP Life
The Dr Scrooge Chronicles
Christmas – 2020
How the Grinch, and Covid, stole General Practice’s Christmas
MONSTERS
A TALE OF TWO PATIENTS
The Ten Demandments
The Windhover
‘TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS – 2020
Waiting patiently for the Lord
Faith in the time of Coronavirus – 4
The Lord is my Portion
Why do bad things happen to good people? – a tentative suggestion.
Resting in Pieces
Faith in the time of Coronavirus – 3
Longing for the pavilion – whilst enjoying a good innings.
I’ve got a little list…
THE VERY MODEL OF A GENERAL PRACTITIONER?
Water from a Rock
Masked
Luther and the Global Pandemic: On Becoming A Theologian of the Cross
SOMETHING TO REFLECT UPON – ARE WE TOO NARCISSISTIC? or WHY DON’T YOU JUST STOP READING THIS AND GO AND DO SOMETHING LESS BORING INSTEAD (Long Version).
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SHE’S THE PATIENT YOU STILL DON’T KNOW YOU HAVE
She’s the patient you don’t know you have
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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?
The ‘Already’ and the ‘Not Yet’
Faith in the time of Coronavirus – 2
True Love?
Three Chords And The Truth?
HOPE COMES FROM BELIEVING THE PROMISES OF GOD
I’m beginning to miss that, now that that’s beginning to go.
Coronavirus – a giant sized problem?
Reflections in the Darkness
On Being Confronted by the Law
Rest Assured
Easter Sunday
Good Friday
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope
Faith in the time of coronavirus
John 3:16
Some trust in chariots…
Covid -19. Does it suggest we really did have the experience but miss the meaning?
Mind the Gap
‘Twas the Day before Christmas
Because sometimes, not even chocolate is enough.
Health – it’ll be the death of us. Is there institutional arrogance in the health service?
Three Times A Patient
Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine.
Introducing GPs Anonymous
Has anyone seen General Practice?
Something to reflect upon – are we too narcissistic?
A Merry, and Resilient, Christmas – A Personal View.
I’ll miss this when we’re gone
How the Grinch stole General Practice’s Christmas
Black Friday
With great power…
When the Joke’s on You
A Language All Of Its Own.
Somewhere over the rainbow?
Medical Stereotypes – not being defined by our mistakes.
The NHS – the ‘S’ is for ‘Service’ not ‘Slave’
For when we can’t see why.
Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency – Complete
Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency – Chapter Four
Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency – Chapter Three
Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency – Chapter Two
Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency – Chapter One
Desert Island Drugs
Measure for Measure – Appraisal for Appraisal
Unchained Malady
CONTACTLESS
Professor Ian Aird – A Time to Die?
General Practice – a sweet sorrow
EXPRESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM AND THE DRIVE FOR PERFECTION
Increasing anxiety – a relative certainty.
A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL – Stave One
A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL – Stave Two
A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL – Stave Five
A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL – Stave Four
A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL – Stave Three
ANTIDEPRESSANT PRESCRIBING – A NEW HIGH
THE LIFE I LEAD
T.S. Eliot, Jesus and the Paradox of the Christian Life.
Be Drunk – extended Theological version
NIKKI ALEXANDER – DR PERFECT?
SUFFERING – A PERSONAL VIEW
Be Drunk (Short Version)
Here’s to 2019
‘TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS
GRACE IN A POLITICAL WORLD
Vanity Fair
Hoping to maintain resilience
SOMERSET CCC – GOOD FOR THE SOUL
‘The Medical Condition’ or ‘Hannah Arendt is completely fine’
EVE OF THE RLODC FINAL LIMERICKS
A Primary Care Christmas Carol – Complete
Dark Reflections
Blaming it on the Boogie
THE ABOLITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE
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
Sense and Sensitivity
DO WE CARE ABOUT SADNESS?
Advanced Access – a step in the wrong direction
GENERAL PRACTICE – STILL MY BATTLEGROUND OF CHOICE
JUST IN CASE MEDICINE – THE DANGERS OF PRACTISING DEFENSIVELY
The Resurrection – is it just Rhubarb?
Toward maintaining a more compassionate resilience
An Inappropriate Blog? – I Hope You Like It
I’ll miss this when we’re gone? – extended theological version
WE HAD THE EXPERIENCE BUT MISSED THE MEANING – Short Version
The Sacrifice of Isaac – Law or Gospel?
I’ll miss this when we’re gone? – extended theological version
IN LOVING MEMORY OF TRUTH
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO DON’T FEEL TOUGH ENOUGH TO KEEP GOING?
Christmas
ARE WE TOO BUSY TO BE HAPPY?
Reflections on the death of Leonard Cohen
Unchained Malady
Advent
‘Twas the Day before Christmas
Who serves in a service?
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Introducing GPs Anonymous
Introducing GPs Anonymous
Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine.
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What price resilience?
I knew a man
a silent tear
The Longest Day
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