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Doctor, educator, writer. Narrative medicine, peer supervision, NHS. Columnist @bmj_latest. Hon assoc prof @UCL. Own views.
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John Launer: I hope GPs will continue to value “mosaic care”

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By John Launer Verified
| The BMJ Verified
A common stereotype of GPs’ work—held by some politicians and hospital specialists, as well as members of the public—is that we deal mainly with simple or trivial problems and refer everything else onwards: a role sometimes described as “sort, fix, or send.”1 While some GPs do practise in this impoverished way, and the pressure to do so seems to be increasing relentlessly, most seasoned doctors will see this description as a travesty of our roles.
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Sex, violence, and moral ambiguity in Once Upon a Time in the West

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By John Launer Verified
| BJGP (British Journal of General Practice) Verified
Sergio Leone’s final and arguably greatest Western, Once Upon a Time in the West, is famous for its long, drawn-out gun fights, which open and close the movie like two gruesome bookends. Less often noted is the fact that the plot centres around a woman who is a sex worker, and it shows her in an almost entirely positive light.
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John Launer: Anger in the consultation room

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By John Launer Verified
| The BMJ Verified
I was asked recently to run a session for young GPs on managing anger in the consultation. This was the first time in a long career as an educator that I’d had a request to discuss this topic directly. Anger, on the part of either the patient or the doctor, has surely always occurred in medical practice. Yet, from what I hear all around me, it’s more prevalent than ever. It also seems as though all narratives about anger in the consultation are about blame and reproach.
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