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Out Foreign

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Our trip was booked in October 2020, when it seemed like a reasonable expectation that maybe the world would have returned to normal by the summer. You could walk into a clothes shop without an appointment. The rumours of double-vaccinated ICU inhabitants gained pace. We were in. We had made it.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients). 29 Source: OECD Health Statistics 2020 (without dental care) 29 8. Family medicine today is therefore more important than ever.