Terry Kemple

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Books: Not the End of the World: How we Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Aug 29, 2024 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple

Hannah Ritchie Chatto & Windus, 2024, HB, 352pp, £16.99, 978-1784745004We may not be doomed! While the environmental situation is serious, not every disaster headline is accurate. There is hope. ‘Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’(HG Wells, The Outline of History)Finding the truth is not the same as denying the environmental crisis. We need the best information to do the best management. False information, including many doomsday headlines, is everywhere.
Books: Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost?

May 30, 2024 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple |Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson Abacus, 2024, PB, 320pp, £10.31, 978-0349144665The daily news and our own experiences seem to signal that the UK is in decline. Services that had always seemed certain in our lives are under threat. Benjamin Franklin did warn that ‘in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’ Those taxes take nearly four out every ten pounds that we earn. The Government’s spending decisions are changing the way we live and the sort of society we live in.
Books: How Westminster Works … And Why it Doesn’t

Mar 27, 2024 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple |Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024, PB, 448pp, £9.49, 978-1399602747Most of us have a vague idea about the inner workings of Government, but how many of us really understand the details, such as how and why we have first, second, and third readings of proposed legislation in the House of Commons, and how statutory instruments allow Government to make new laws without any effective scrutiny?
Kindness: treating others the way you’d like to be treated

Oct 16, 2023 | bmj.com | Terry Kemple

News & ViewsKindness: treating... Kindness: treating others the way you’d like to be treated Letters Kindness in a doctor’s job BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2364 Cite this as: BMJ 2023;383:p2364 Terry Kemple, general practitioner lead for the green impact for health toolkitBristol, UKtjkemple{at}gmail.com“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel”—Maya Angelou.
Planetary health: a warning from your future?

Sep 28, 2023 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple

This warning is not about climate change. Skip to the last paragraph to get your warning or keep reading to understand why we ignore warnings. Dennis Mileti, whose work informed this opinion piece, was a world-renowned US expert on disaster communication.
Re: The job of a doctor is not necessarily to be kind

Sep 11, 2023 | bmj.com | Terry Kemple

Dear Editor“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou. Kindness in a caring profession is important but difficult to judge. It is what a patient feels. We each have memories of past great kindness and daily experience of common unkindness. We value kindness. For thousands of years different traditions have advanced the same practical message about the basics of how to be kind.
Books: How To Say Goodbye

Aug 31, 2023 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple |Wendy MacNaughton

Wendy MacNaughton Bloomsbury, 2023, HB, 128pp, £16.69, 978-1639730858There is no right way to say goodbye at the end of a life. Most GPs are used to dealing with the medical business of a death. From the tragedy of the unexpected death in a young person to the long-awaited death in old age. We have witnessed, remember, and learnt from the best and worst of deaths. Less of us have experienced the death of a loved one. Few of us are prepared for our own deaths.
How to be a triple bottom line general practice: working for profit, the people, and the planet

Jan 26, 2023 | bjgp.org | Terry Kemple |Green Issues

The single bottom line in a business is its annual profit or loss. For 30 years advocates1 for social justice and the environment have called for full cost accounting with a triple bottom line2 (TBL), where all the consequences of a business are made transparent. These are its social, environmental, and economic impacts and outcomes. The triple bottom line’s goal is a transformational change in capitalism.