Now in its third edition and aimed at the general practitioner, Smith’s book is a considerable achievement, packing so much into just under 600 pages.

Martin and colleagues’ article on how general practice is sacrificing patient care for prevention saddened me.1 I recently reread Julian Tudor Hart’s book A New Kind of Doctor , in which he dismantles ...

General practitioners are a big part of Britain’s health-care crisis Public dissatisfaction with GPs is growing fast. ... For this, they are paid a fixed sum for each patient on their books.