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"A modest thoughtfulness"

scientific article

"Arm in arm with righteousness".

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

"The cawing of the crow...Cassandra-like, prognosticating woe"

scientific article

'Bad old habits' … and what really matters

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

A call to challenge the "Selling of Sickness" ⬇️

scientific article published on May 14, 2013

A general practitioner for every person in the world

scientific article published on April 2008

A taxonomy of general practice.

scientific article published in May 2006

A wolf in sheep's clothing: a critical look at the ethics of drug taking

scientific article

Addressing overuse and underuse around the world

scientific article published in The Lancet

Ageism in services for transient ischaemic attack and stroke: whose ageism?

scientific article published in October 2006

An open letter to the Prime Minister

scientific article published in February 2008

Are policy makers really listening? ⬇️

scientific article published on 02 June 2011

Back to the future: aspects of the NHS that should never change-an essay by Iona Heath

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Beyond diagnosis: rising to the multimorbidity challenge.

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Boost for sustainable healthcare

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Breast cancer screening causes more harm than good: Yes

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

COVID-19 and the legacy of grief

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Can covid-19 help us deal with the pandemic of defensive medicine?

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Clinical practice: when things go wrong

scientific article published in April 2010

Clinical prevention: patients' fear and the doctor's guilt

scientific article published in January 2009

Closing the gap: relationships matter

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Combating disease mongering: daunting but nonetheless essential

scientific article published on 11 April 2006

Conflicts of interest within England's NHS.

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Crocodile tears for health inequality

scientific article published on 08 June 2010

Dare to use your own intelligence

scientific article published on 19 August 2008

Developments in the provision of primary health care for homeless people.

scientific article

Dirty work

scientific article published on 03 August 2009

Divided we fail

scientific article published in December 2011

Ethics review of research and audit

scientific article published on February 2005

Every day in every way we are getting better and better: the optimism of health policy

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Exploitation and apology

scientific article published on May 2007

Falling through the gaps in care ⬇️

scientific article published on November 21, 2012

Frederick Banting and the opportunities for research for general practitioners

scientific article published on 2 May 2011

Frederick Banting and the opportunities of research by general practitioners ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

From my diary

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

From my diary

Global mental health

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Have large increases in fast track referrals improved bowel cancer outcomes in UK?

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

How impossibly difficult the whole undertaking is

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

How medicine has exploited rationality at the expense of humanity: an essay by Iona Heath

scientific article

Hypertensive Urgency-Is This a Useful Diagnosis?

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

In defence of a National Sickness Service

scientific article published on January 2007

In memoriam

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

In praise of young doctors ⬇️

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Information without wisdom

scientific article published on 05 July 2017

Introduction to conceptual explorations on person-centered medicine

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Iona Heath: not keen on posh boys

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Is clinical prevention better than cure?

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Let's get tough on the causes of health inequality

scientific article

Let's not widen the gulf in the health care of children

scientific article published on May 2008

Life and Death. It is not wrong to say no

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

Life and Death. No power for the people

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

Life and death: Only general practice can save the NHS

scientific article published in July 2007

Life and death: The growing gap

scientific article published on March 2007

Living, dying and the nature of death ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Long term care for older people

scientific article published on June 2002

Love in the time of coronavirus

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Measuring performance and missing the point?

scientific article

Measuring quality in the therapeutic relationship--part 1: objective approaches

scientific article published on December 2010

Measuring quality in the therapeutic relationship--part 2: subjective approaches

scientific article

Medical generalists: connecting the map and the territory

scientific article

Medicine in society.

scientific article published on July 2003

Moving beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: many patients have multiple morbidities, and their needs have to be addressed

scientific article published on March 2003

Multiple Health Problems in Elderly People: Never had it so good?

scientific article published on 8 April 2008

National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Venous Thromboembolism

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Not safe in their hands ⬇️

scientific article published on February 20, 2013

Objectification of physicians and loss of therapeutic power

scientific article published in March 2007

On the irreducible individuality of the person and the fullness of life: simon gray's smoking diaries

scientific article published in September 2010

Opt in not out.

scientific article

Out of hours primary care--a shambles?

scientific article published on February 2007

Overdiagnosis: when good intentions meet vested interests--an essay by Iona Heath

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Patients are not commodities

scientific article published on April 2006

Person-centered prevention and health promotion.

scientific article

Policing access to primary care with identity cards

scientific article published on August 2004

Prevention and clinical complexity

scientific article published on 21 May 2009

Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking

scientific article published in August 2007

Primary care priorities in addressing health equity: summary of the WONCA 2013 health equity workshop

scientific article

Promotion of disease and corrosion of medicine.

scientific article published on October 2005

Protecting time

scientific article published in March 2010

Quality in primary health care: a multidimensional approach to complexity

scientific article

R-E-S-P-E-C-T--find out what it means

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Racism and general practice--time to grasp the nettle.

scientific article

Recovering the self: a manifesto for primary care

scientific article published on November 2016

Reforming disease definitions: a new primary care led, people-centred approach

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Report of the independent panel considering the retraction of two articles in The BMJ.

scientific article

Role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment--an essay by Iona Heath

scientific article published on 24 October 2014

Seeming virtuous on chronic diseases ⬇️

scientific article published on July 6, 2011

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering

scientific article

Something rotten

scientific article

Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed

scientific article

That by which it is what it is.

scientific article published in May 2009

The NHS gift economy is in peril

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005

The art of doing nothing

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

The blame game

scientific article published on 06 January 2009

The blind leading the blind

scientific article published on September 2007

The costs of the reverberating bedpan ⬇️

scientific article published on October 21, 2010

The emperor's new constitution

scientific article published on 30 September 2008

The future of national health systems.

scientific article published on May 2011

The importance of values in evidence-based medicine

scientific article

The medical care practitioner: Newspeak and the duping of the public.

scientific article published in December 2004

The missing person: The outcome of the rule-based totalitarianism of too much contemporary healthcare

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

The politics of drug industry sponsorship ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2011

The problem of diagnosis

scientific article published on 03 October 2012

The road to hell...

scientific article published on December 2007

The space of our lives

scientific article

There is no evidence base for proposed dementia screening

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Thresholds for normal blood pressure and serum cholesterol

scientific article published in June 2005

Toward Person-Centered Medicine: From Disease to Patient to Person

Treating violence as a public health problem

scientific article published on October 2002

View of health technology assessment from the swampy lowlands of general practice

scientific article published on January 2004

Waste and Harm in the Treatment of Mild Hypertension ⬇️

scientific article published on June 10, 2013

What do we want to die from?

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

What's wrong with assisted dying ⬇️

scientific article published on May 29, 2012

Whatever happened to normal ageing?

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Who needs health care--the well or the sick?

scientific article

Who's complacent now? The King's Fund on general practice ⬇️

scientific article published on April 13, 2011

Why the GMC should set up a central registry of doctors' competing interests

scientific article

William Pickles Lecture 1999: 'Uncertain clarity': contradiction, meaning, and hope

Women in medicine

scientific article published on August 2004

Words are all we have ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca) perspectives on person-centered medicine.

scientific article

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