Category: Dr Judith Harvey

Dr Judith Harvey was a research scientist, ran the VSO programme in Papua New Guinea and taught in a Liverpool comprehensive school before going to medical school. She has been a partner, a salaried GP and a locum and an LMC chair. She started a charity which for nine years enabled medical students to go to Cuba for their electives.

Judith is a long-time supporter of NASGP and has been providing regular articles for The Sessional GP for over 12 years, her reflections ranging widely on practical, ethical and cultural aspects of health and medicine.

A lockdown diary – a journal of our times

NASGP's columnist records the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: Ocado queues, home haircuts and a temporary reprieve from FOMO

Dr Judith Harvey

Antimicrobial resistance: can we outrun evolution?

NASGP's columnist on life before – and possibly after – antibiotics

Dr Judith Harvey

Podcast | Social prescribing – I’ve seen the future of  general practice…

A partner in a North London practice was feeling burned out. The crushing target-chasing workload was no longer offset by the reward of helping patients. The BNF had no remedy for the distresses of modern life which patients were bringing into her consulting room. She, like her patients, was ground down.

Dr Judith Harvey

Podcast | Quiet please

Podcast | Now wash your hands

Presumably a reasonably successful public health campaign, although if you are trapped like a sardine in a rush-hour tube train, you may have no alternative but to sneeze into the shoulder of the person jammed in front of you.

Podcast | Singing in the brain; music for dementia

There is currently no prospect of effective medication for dementia. Reluctantly, we prescribe agitated patients chemical coshes. But does music sooth agitation – and more?

Dr Judith Harvey

Podcast | Eating people is wrong: Kuru and cannibalism

Recently, in Tromsø, the Arctic capital of Norway, I came across the name Carleton Gajdusek. That name took me back many years and halfway round the globe to a village in the Fore district of Papua New Guinea.

Podcast | Getting under your skin; a visit to Body Worlds and the art of plastination

How do you react to seeing a man standing, flayed of his skin, his internal organs on view, his muscles brick red, his blue eyes staring out at you? Or what about the trio posed round a table playing poker?

Fringe medicine

At the Fringe you may well be baffled but you are unlikely to be bored. With any luck you will have some laughs. But whatever you see, the buzz of Edinburgh in August is a tonic in itself.