A Doctor for the People: 2,000 Years of General Practice in Britain

Summary Because the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased greatly over the past decade, UK general practitioners have been encouraged to develop services for people with diabetes and to offer structured diabetes care. The resultant shift from secondary care can place considerable demands on primary health care teams. Data were obtained from 108 practices in two English health districts followed up in primary and secondary care. Nearly two-thirds of the people with diabetes were being followed up only in general practice, the remainder in hospital or both. The proportion managed in primary care varied from 5.6% to 94.6%. The settings where diabetes care was most likely to be offered were training practices, practices with good nursing support, practices with a high prevalence of diabetes, and practices in which a high proportion of diabetic patients were controlled by diet or hypoglycaemic agents. Tight control of glycaemia and blood pressure is now seen as important in diabetes, and is best achieved in general practice. This survey revealed large variations in delivery of general-practice diabetes care that need to be addressed by better organization and funding.

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Book Review: A Doctor for the People: 2000 Years of General Practice in Britain

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ◽

10.1177/014107688107400326 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 229-230

Author(s):

John Horder

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

The People

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Challenging consultations

InnovAiT Education and inspiration for general practice ◽

10.1177/1755738018800356 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 24-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Roger Neighbour

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

The People

A typical surgery in general practice will usually contain at least one consultation that does not go well, leaving doctor or patient, or both, feeling puzzled, dissatisfied or frustrated. And every GP will be able to name a few individuals whom they find so consistently debilitating as to be labelled ‘heart-sink patients’. You know who they are: the ‘Unrealistic expecters’; the ‘Nothing ever works’ or the ‘While I’m here’ brigade; the people with long lists or short fuses; the somatisers; the sufferers from medically inexplicable symptoms who nevertheless want endless investigations and referrals; those who have already consulted Dr Google. In this article I will try to tease out why it is that we find some patients difficult, and offer some suggestions for what we can do about it, (or at the very least make our consultations with them easier to bear).

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Escaping Malthus: Population Explosion and Human Movement, 1760–1884

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237395.013.0009 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Ernest Benz

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

General Practice ◽

Human Movement ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Popular Imagination ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Human Survival ◽

Population Explosion ◽

The People

This article focuses the theory of Malthus and the arguments of his Essay on the Principle of Population. This famous essay colored the thinking and actions of nineteenth-century householders and policy-makers. Vulgar Malthusian ideology missed the mark through an over-simplification of complex human behaviour, but general practice embodied his norms from 1760 to 1884. Even as the accuracy of the Malthusian model waned in terms of his description of marriage and reproduction at the end of the 1800s, its hold on the popular imagination persisted. Malthus bewitched the people with a picture. In 1798 Malthus proffered a schematic objection to their blueprints for perfecting humanity. Malthus postulated that the ‘passion between the sexes’ could unleash human ‘prolifick powers’ to reproduce at geometric rates, while technology generated merely arithmetic increases in the quantities of food necessary for human survival. An analysis of Malthusianism in practice concludes this article.

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An immense analysis on problems faced by EFL people while writing technical papers

WRITING SKILLS FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH ◽

10.26524/royal.55.6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 90-107

Author(s):

DASARI SANDEEP

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

Academic Writing ◽

Research Work ◽

Publishing Research ◽

Outer World ◽

The People ◽

Research Scholar ◽

Presentation Skill

Publishing research work in journals has become a general practice to every research scholar. Because English is the only language which can be acceptable and understandable by many of the people globally. This article explains the importance of practices in academic writing, publication. Content Presentation skill in English is important. It is the only way to share our views to the outer world.

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