I have just hosted the first European conference on systemic family medicine. This happened more or less accidentally. I have a good friend in Finland, Pekka Larivaara, who is the only professor of systemic family medicine in Europe. Pekka asked me a few months ago if he could bring over some GPs to meet like-minded colleagues in Britain. I sent round a few emails to people who might be interested, and then decided it might be fun to invite some contacts in other countries too. They passed on the message, and the event started to gather momentum. When it finally arrived we had 70 people from seven countries, and enough offers to put on four symposia, eight workshops and three plenary talks. It certainly didn't seem too grandiose at that point to call it the first European conference on systemic family medicine, so we did.
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