Two Houses Blog

The Two Houses Blog is written by Martin Brunet and will include occasional posts about communication in primary care. Sign up is simple and will mean you receive an e mail when a new blog post or a new guide has been published.

Jan 24, 2021

Popping the bubble

“I need to see a doctor face to face.” Prior to March 2020 this would have been a perfectly reasonable request, negotiated between...

Jul 8, 2020

A Disordered Personality, or a Disordered Care System?

If the high point of a consultation is when patient and doctor achieve a truly shared understanding, then we usually have to overcome the...

Jun 11, 2020

A Concerned Relative

A common scenario in general practice - and a classic choice for both the GP training selection centre and the CSA exam (remember...

May 28, 2020

Thin blood? Who wants that?

It happened again this week; the resigned look of stoic acceptance, the familiar phrase: “Well I do get cold, doctor, but that’s because...

May 25, 2020

'New Normal'? Not for me

As 2020 draws to a close the Oxford English Dictionary will decide on its 'Word of the Year'. In truth, it's not always a word in the...

Apr 12, 2020

Two Houses Guides - an introduction

I have long been struck by the difference between the instinctive, pragmatic, jobbing GP approach that most experienced GPs adopt when...