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Different folks, different strokes

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Lucy O'Hagan

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General practice is full of important and mysterious transactions that defy a measuring stick [image: Alex Sava on iStock]

In praise of GPs, Lucy O’Hagan explains what you might find going on behind closed consultation-room doors any day of the week

What is a good GP? Most GPs are professional and medically competent, so what makes a really good one? It’s hard to know, because we don’t see what ou