Patience, patients everywhere - Fran Orford

Fran is a widely-published cartoonist with a specialinterest in medicine and healthcare. His cartoons regularly appear in PrivateEye and GP Magazine, amongst others.

This collection of his witty and acerbic cartoons poke funat the absurdities of General Practice, from the endless form-filling andshifting targets driven by a top-down bureaucracy that doesn't reallyunderstand family medicine, through the ever-increasing demands of patients whohave self-diagnosed online, to the confusions caused by patient-doctormisunderstandings.

Its humorous, sideways glance at the world of the 10-minuteconsultation is a welcome antidote to the stresses and strains of modern GeneralPractice.

The cartoons will entertain and raise the spirits of theoverburdened GP, and may even show patients how their behaviour impacts on thetreatment they receive.