TY - JOUR T1 - Compassion, continuity and caring: a new GP’s perspective JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 93 LP - 93 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X683665 VL - 66 IS - 643 AU - Tom Nolan Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/643/93.abstract N2 - The following quote and text is an excerpt from a chapter of a Royal College of General Practitioners’ publication: Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS; out now. This is a celebration of over 65 years of the RCGP and its motto ‘Cum Scientia Caritas’, edited by Rodger Charlton, the honorary editor of RCGP publications. ‘When In 1922, on the very morning after I had graduated I plunged straight into general practice armed with a thermometer and a stethoscope, and precariously buoyed up with faith, hope and charity — faith in whatever knowledge I had succeeded in acquiring from my excellent teachers, hope that I should remember the dose of strychnine and which forceps blade to insert first, plus my inborn but, so far, undeveloped caritas.’This was GL McCulloch speaking in 1969 to the East Anglia RCGP faculty about the RCGP’s motto, Cum Scientia Caritas.1 The college and its motto (‘Science with Compassion’) will be celebrating its 65th anniversary next year. How times have changed since McCulloch was practising. … ER -