TY - JOUR T1 - Boiling Frogs and Burning Out JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 59 LP - 59 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X683521 VL - 66 IS - 643 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/643/59.abstract N2 - There is an art to boiling a frog. If you drop your frog directly into boiling water it will leap out with some haste and no little dissatisfaction. However, if you start with cold water and slowly crank up the heat the obliging poikilothermic amphibian will allow its body temperature to rise to the point where it is, quite literally, cooked. Actually biologists squabble in coffee rooms over the reality of this but no matter; it is a powerful metaphor that highlights the risk to GPs working in healthcare systems that are increasingly heated.GPs are, if nothing else, homeotherms and we are feeling the heat. Doran and colleagues’ mixed methods study of why GPs leave practice early in England delves deeper. … ER -