From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: As I finished the final house calls of my long career in general practice, it struck me how detached I am from my patients now – and that it was not always like this. Where did we go wrong, and what can we do to fix it? By Clare Gerada. Read by Lucy Scott. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:37.9	Hello, my name is Claire Gerada, and the article I wrote in 2022 is called, In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded.
1:45.5	So I decided to write the piece having just done a whole day on call on boxing day.
1:53.7	And I was driving home. I'd been working for 12 hours. It was pouring with rain.
2:00.5	And I felt really miserable. This was the last
2:04.0	on call I would ever do. And I felt that I just couldn't give my patients the sort of care that they
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