TY - JOUR T1 - Book reviews JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 244 LP - 244 VL - 55 IS - 512 AU - David Kernick Y1 - 2005/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/512/244.1.abstract N2 - Tim Holt Complexity for Clinicians Radcliffe Publishing 2004 PB, 169 pages, £27.95, 1 85775 855 2 In the late 1990s, a small number of GPs came together under the auspices of the Complexity in Primary Care Group. United by a common concern for the limitations of the prevailing approach to evidence-based practice, they took their inspiration from the emerging field of non-linear systems dynamics. Converging from an array of disciplines ranging from meteorology to biology and reflected in the study of chaos and complexity theory, it offered new and exciting avenues for exploration that resonated with our perspective of the world from primary care.With time, individuals developed areas of special interest, but for Tim Holt the pathway seemed clear from the outset of our early meetings. His was to be a pursuit of the application of chaos theory to clinical medicine, a … ER -