Doctors Desk - Internet portal for G.Ps. Also available as a commercial desk top programme.
Centre for Innovation in Primary Care - Independent charity. Resource for UK General Practitioners. Tools for measuring performance and for producing-evidence based change. Results of local projects in Sheffield.
Doctor Resources - Resource site for general practitioners, produced by 'Doctor', a weekly magazine for GPs.
EMIS National User Group - National User Group for the EMIS computer system used in general practices. Latest news of developments. Facilities to share templates and protocols.
GP-UK e-mail discussion list - GP-UK is a mailing list for the UK General Practice (Family Medicine) community. Discussions are intended to promote collaborative work, problem solving and support.
MRCGP Workbook - Workbook for sale, to help GP Registrars prepare for the Membership examinations, by Dr. Amar Rughani FRCGP, a GP Tutor and RCGP Examiner. Sample pages available.
Tutorials for GP Registrars - Good collection of up-to-date tutorials from a Welsh training practice in Abersychan.
Salisbury Trainers Group - For prospective GP registrars. Details of the Salisbury area, the training practices and the trainers.
Mentor Web Site - Information and EMIS software updates for Clinical Mentor, PILs and the Dermis module.
gpregistrar.co.uk - Resources for general practice registrars in the UK.
National Association of Primary Care - Professional association of primary health care professionals and organisations. Site contains public and private areas.
GP Learning Desktop Portfolio - Computer programme for sale. Will help with personal development planning and portfolio-based learning for general practitioners. Free demo version available for download.
Personal Development Plans for GP's - Includes a personal development plan toolkit for the Eastern Deanery plus educational resources and links for gp's.
Dispensing Doctors' Association - Representing family doctors in primary care in the UK who dispense medications for patients
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea General Practitioners You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Practitioners There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor General Practitioners
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril General Practitioners God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) General Practitioners
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di General Practitioners "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton General Practitioners
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner General Practitioners The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had General Practitioners
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) General Practitioners When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair General Practitioners
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire General Practitioners A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw General Practitioners
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) General Practitioners Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) General Practitioners
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u General Practitioners If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich General Practitioners Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers General Practitioners
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw General Practitioners Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec General Practitioners
