Yonder: GP trainers, menopause, shared decision making, and coroners’ reports

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Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureRarely does a week go by without an unpleasant newspaper headline about GPs overprescribing antibiotics. Having recently had a patient swear profusely at me and refuse to leave my consultation room after I’d explained that they had a viral infection that wouldn’t improve with antibiotics, I find myself wondering whether policymakers really understand the work we do in primary care. A recent French study took on the divisive issue of antibiotic prescribing, comparing rates between GP trainers and non-trainers.1 They looked at the prescribing patterns of 860 GPs over 1 calendar year, 102 (11.9%) of whom were GP trainers. Prescribing rates were adjusted for various GP characteristics, including sex, age, location …