TY - JOUR T1 - Being impossible JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 525 LP - 525 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X588574 VL - 61 IS - 589 AU - James Willis Y1 - 2011/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/589/525.abstract N2 - While GPs may not work miracles as often as some of their patients imagine, they do the impossible everyday. Rather than being ashamed of this, it is time everybody realised it is something to be proud of.I am reading Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life. Bearing in mind that Bryson's 1990 book The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way more or less covered the English language, that he then wrote books which more or less covered, in turn, Britain, North America, and Australia, and after those, A Short History of Nearly Everything, which more or less covered science, the way that his new book more or less covers social history ought, you must surely agree, to be impossible. But — hey presto — … ER -