TY - JOUR T1 - A journey into the humanitarian side of general practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 192 LP - 192 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X684457 VL - 65 IS - 633 AU - Jim Huddy Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/192.abstract N2 - Last year I attended the inaugural Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference (PODC) in Boston, Massachusetts, US. A scientist by nature, I soaked up the evidence on the threat of overdiagnosis in its many forms and met famous doctors and researchers. I got home and told the local clinical leaders all about it and we are using what I have learned to shape local practice. Great.This year my experience at PODC 2014 in Oxford was very different and serendipity led me in another direction: down an avenue of medicine not so well known to me. It is the humanitarian side of medicine, where numbers needed to treat, clinical guidelines, and risk reduction analyses are subconscious. It is the side of medicine that considers (and researches) … ER -