The GP Consultation Reimagined: A tale of two houses

by Martin Brunet

A new and creative way of thinking about the consultation in primary care, for both trainees and practising GPs
 
The book features a unique Two Houses model to help the reader move away from completing a series of tasks to focusing on the two key objectives at the heart of every Using the rich metaphors contained within these houses, the book explores common pitfalls that can beset those who are learning the craft of consulting in primary care, and encourages the reader to fill their toolbox with the skills needed to develop their own patient-centred consultation style.

The GP Consultation Reimagined is based on the author's experience of teaching communication skills over 10 years as a GP Training Programme Director.

"This book will not teach you to improve your consultations. That is its great merit. Instead, it will encourage you to learn how to consult better." From the Foreword by Roger Neighbour

190 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2020

Reviews

[Dani Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a GP trainee, this book is enlighting! It challenges the linear consultation techniques which we learn in GP training, and offers a much more valuable approach to consultation. Using comparisons and metaphors that are easy to visualise, Brunet poses a much more fluid and patient-centered way of consulting. I have started putting this to practice and it does help me be more genuinely involved with my patients by visualising where we are in the two houses. I am glad to read this early on in my career!

[chris tervit · Rating 4 out of 5]

My fellow GP Trainer in Glasgow Clyde North group, Dr Nadja Gunneberg, brought this to one of our GP Trainers’ meetings. It struck a chord with many of us. Only written in 2020, it feels contemporary- we’ve been waiting for the next steps after Pendleton & Roger Neighbour et al for years! Makes you think about how to have, & teach, genuinely patient-centred consultations in the age of AI, cyberchondria, often times crazy pharmaco-medical model symptom-checker algorithms & doctors that ask google too!?! Now in throes of putting the learning from it into a Workshop for the Annual West of Scotland GP Trainers’ Conference in October- current title “Are We Stuck in the ICE Age?”.