TY - JOUR T1 - Cultures in the consultation JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 438 LP - 438 DO - 10.3399/bjgp12X653732 VL - 62 IS - 601 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2012/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/62/601/438.abstract N2 - Some jokes hold no truth. ‘What is the difference between Australia and yoghurt? After 200 years, yoghurt develops a culture.’In Australia, as in the UK, cross-cultural consulting is a standard part of a GPs toolkit. In Australia, though, one of the cultures we are privileged to be exposed to is the longest continuous one in the world, Aboriginal culture. To work as a GP in an Aboriginal community is to work constantly across cultures. There’s a sense I get sometimes while consulting, of being disoriented, off balance; some of my assumptions evaporate to be replaced by tentative ‘what ifs?’But my cross-cultural consultations … ER -