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Beware of the Chair
Dr Duncan Hill
12th May 2022
As a nation we are sitting more, as GP’s we are spending more time at our desks. How does this impact our health and risks of chronic disease and what can we do to reduce this?
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it
Dr Neal Tucker
5th May 2022
Dave has had asthma since he was a kid. He’s 45 now. He knows asthma. “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”.
NFILD and non-antibiotic options for recurrent UTI
Dr Rob Walker
28th April 2022
Joan is 73 and comes to see you with a worsening dry cough over the past few months, and she is now feeling a bit more puffed out than usual, which is affecting her daily dog walk. Her examination is unremarkable...
Helping Patients with Diabetes during Ramadan
Neal Tucker
7th April 2022
A chance encounter with a patient at the school gates last week reminded me that Ramadan has begun. Over the usual pleasantries, he mentioned that he had started fasting throughout April. I remarked how...
Prostate Cancer and managing uncertainty
NB Medical
17th March 2022
Uncertainty. How often do we come across that word in medicine and Primary Care specifically? As GPs, as well as being expert generalists we are also experts in managing uncertainty. We are constantly...
‘It’s your hormones, love’ ‘Oh, someone’s got their period’
Dr Siobhan Becker
3rd March 2022
Jokes about women and their hormones are as old as the hills and generally about as welcome as a sharp object in the eye. Nonetheless, there is a mass of evidence demonstrating the fundamental role that...