TY - JOUR T1 - July Focus JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 498 LP - 498 VL - 55 IS - 516 AU - David Jewell Y1 - 2005/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/516/498.abstract N2 - Writing this column makes me feel like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (I even have the authentic grey beard and glittering eye). My suave, well-dressed colleagues are minding their own business, strolling towards the wedding feast of their real interests – seeing patients, planning the next dawn strike on the NHS, the delights of the Back Pages, or the real pleasures of life, when I grab them by the arm: ‘Read this. It will change your life.’ Embarrassed, they do their best to shrug me off and move on without creating too public a disturbance. But then every so often the pleading becomes more insistent. ‘No, no, this is really important. You have to read it.’ Such a paper appears on page 503, exploring the events of the lives of people who subsequently committed suicide. As qualitative papers should, it describes … ER -