A Flourishing Practice?
Peter Toon
RCGP,
2014, PB,
152pp,
£18/£20
978-0-850843-53-8
Doctors don’t seem to be flourishing right now. GPs live in a world of multiple statutory, regulatory, and disciplinary perils, 5-yearly revalidation, deprofessionalisation, and who knows how many years to a pension. A world where doctors’ interests seem often to be pitted against patients’ interests in a zero sum game. Peter Toon offers us no sticking plasters or quick fixes. This book starts with the metaphor of society clinging to the wreckage of a past shared-moral vision. Our little pieces of the wreckage …