Classic Copperfield

Do heartsink patients ever die?

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:39:38 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 17 May 2005. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Care pathways take us to hell and back

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:37:11 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 13 September 2005. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Pathological needles in polysymptomatic haystack

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:00:18 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 24 January 2006. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Translating patients' idioms

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:27:24 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 4 April 2006. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Guru's buttock-wobbling therapy

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:53:23 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 20 August 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Treatment is for GPs to dish out, not take

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:10:21 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 5 April 2005. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Feeling out of sorts over out-of-hours

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:17:17 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 3 May 2005. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

GPs with special interests? Don't get me started

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:17:36 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 30 May 2006. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Winning way to strike fear into heartsink patients

Tony Copperfield — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:44:35 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 1 July 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Necessary barriers between GPs and patients

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:49:59 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 5 August 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

So much care for patients they lose common sense

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:26:16 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 5 June 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Putting the 'V' into GP vocational training

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:26:47 GMT

Fresh approach to GP complaints

Tony Copperfield — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:55:17 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 8 February 2005. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Her shut gob forced me to open mine

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:43:14 GMT

GP's job is sometimes just a shot in the dark

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:18:16 GMT

Certify yourself fit to realise a dream

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:50:57 GMT

Depressed? Try this GP's job for a while

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:02:38 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 25 September 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Time to get tough on the sicknote brigade

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:49:48 GMT

Thank you cards from patients go in the shredder

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:33:33 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 24 September 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Therapy for acronym sufferers

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:20:47 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 26 April 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There’ll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

No more Dr Nice Guy

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:33:10 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 7 March 2002. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

No book can rival school of hard knocks

Tony Copperfield — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:26:45 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 18 January 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Time for GPs to try a little info-terrorism

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:40:55 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 7 August 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Patients are daft, but I'll tell you about a nurse...

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:29:03 GMT

Patients' impatience makes me puke

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:00:45 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine in 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Homoeopaths make me homicidal

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:13:38 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 24 May 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Don't let the SODS get you down

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:52:14 GMT

A classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor magazine on 6 December 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

A classic case of damage limitation

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:32:18 GMT

If patients can make it all up, so can I

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:23:53 GMT

If you can't beat them... join them

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:00:47 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 5 September 2002. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Now what I'd really like to say is

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:42:06 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 10 April 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

No surrender in patient wars

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:57:47 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 5 July 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

No shred of evidence in rules

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:55:14 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 8 March 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Don't blame me for mangled messages

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:42:45 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 25 January 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

What on earth will they think of next?

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:20:52 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 13 March 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Medical molehill to money mountain

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:08:19 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 19 July 2001. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Complainants are insane, it's official

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:25:08 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 3 June 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Stripped down to my number one pet hate

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:34:27 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 8 January 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

Alternative cure for new-age nonsense

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:34:31 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 9 October 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition’

Patients are so wet it makes you weep

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:19:45 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 29 April 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

Tony Copperfield — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:27:36 GMT

How chaos theory works in practice

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:47:55 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 6 November 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Let's-have-a-pop poll puts lawyers in first place

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:26:54 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 24 January 2002. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Time to rehabilitate doctor's little helper

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:10:48 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 15 July 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Comprehensively incomprehensible

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:55:42 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 6 May 2004. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

It's time to book myself into an old folks home

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:26:09 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 18th July 2002. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

Time to declare war on the enemy within

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:08:55 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 12th December 2002. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your weekly Doctor email

History can take such a very, very long time

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:13:34 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 11th September 2003. Copyright (c) Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new Classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

Patient's love life has broken my heart

Tony Copperfield — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:59:57 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 4th December 2003. Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

A close encounter of the turd kind

Tony Copperfield — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:16:35 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 14th November 2002. Copyright (c) Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

Grab a herring, it's time to face the music

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:29:21 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 10th July 2003. Copyright (c) Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition

My listening skills are tired and tested

Tony Copperfield — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:19:46 GMT

From the classic Copperfield column originally printed in Doctor on 17th October 2002. Copyright (c) Elsevier Ltd. There'll be a new classic Copperfield to listen to every week - look out for your Doctor e-edition