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We asked you what you thought about revalidation, advising obese patients, practice budgets and fears over the NHS Commissioning Board.
I'm not a great believer in new year's resolutions; I believe that the way to achieve significant, long-term change is through dedication and hard work over time, rather than through a quick fix.

The recent report suggesting that 46% of GPs show symptoms of burnout has come as a shock, both because of the size of the problem and the fact that burnout is more prevalent in doctors in larger partnerships.
Chaos theory is sometimes called the butterfly effect. And if a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, what Richterian disaster might result from my failed attempt to put Mrs Enormous into the left lateral position?
Now that we are finding more and more planets in the Goldilocks zones, we might expect an alien visitor soon.
Why does general practice lurch from crisis to crisis? These are so frequent as to be cyclical, like the tide. The biggest was in the 1960s, when GPs submitted their undated resignations; there was one in the 1990s over out-of-hours; and another just...
The centenary meeting of the GPC takes place on 28 February.
Last week, GP reported that LMCs had seen a significant increase in the number of GPs coming forward for help with stress, depression and addiction problems.

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