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Dear President-elect

Dear President-elect; From experience and observation of 10 years on Medical Politics: – You may have an opinion on things, however, others do too and they may hold the purse strings, the governance, or the power over you. – They may in fact not give a fig for what...

Here We Are: 5 Stories That Got Us To Now

We live in strange days. Humans have always made sense of their lived experience through stories. Here are some, courtesy of the excellent Morgan Housel (yes, this guy). Three days after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in 1981, New York City Council President Carol...

Body Shaming

We all know that COVID19 is around. Luckily in SA we have stuck to Social DistancingHand WashingCough Etiquette And so we have the following stats! July 8 - well done so far SA But those extra pounds and kilos have snuck in where even COVID19 hasn't reached....

VoteGP | RACGP | AMA

Did you know it is election season? It's almost time to decide on the leadership teams that the RACGP and AMA will have moving forwards in these uncertain days.   First, the RACGP.   Three GPs have thrown their hats into the ring so far – I wish them all the...

COVID clearance certificates and PartridgeGP

Did you know medical certificates expire? They have an end date! So when an employer or other entity asks for a clearance certificate, this is what we are going to write: Dear Employer, The whole point of a medical certificate is to certify someone unwell or unfit....

Divided, the Empire must unite…

Romance of the Three Kingdoms isone of China's four Great Classical Novels. The title of this blog post is more fully: The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been. PartridgeGP is based on a triple promise that we will be great...