GP-land

alternative GP land

1. informaluncountablemedicineThe world of general practice.

   In GP-land people understand that you're a woman, you're going to want to have babies, it's more accepted.

   2008, Emma Hill, So you want to be a medical mum?, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 196

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   It may be possible to satisfy the requirements of the nMRCGP/JCPTGP exam by demonstrating only 2 years in hospital posts, plus 1 year in GP-land, plus passing the exam, BUT many trainees in practice recognise that this is a basic core requirement, not a maximum requirement, and indeed, so do many potential GP-employers.

   2010, David Church, “GP training ‘schemes’”, in British Journal of General Practice, 60 (575): 451-452

   Because going from, in GP-land, having 15 minute blocks and a room full of patients... I didn't realise how much over the last years I'd learnt all these techniques to block everyone... to find what they needed and get them out in 15 minutes.

   2016, Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer, Michael T. Flanagan, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Springer, →ISBN, page 229

   And also I think that, you know, if GPs can't get hold of you or they feel like you leave at midday, which 4.30pm in GP-land is midday, they're not going to call again because you're not helpful.

   2016, Bridget Johnston, Carolyn Coole, Melanie Jay Narayanasamy, “An end-of-life care nurse service for people with COPD and heart failure: stakeholders' experiences”, in International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 22 (11): 549-559