What's the worst mistake a competent doctor can make?

#GPFUQ 200 Why is having more generalists the priority in health care? 

Promoting Sub specialism in health care over generalism can be like promoting care use road building and care use over rapid transport systems. Robert Moses was the unelected super builder who promote better roads to solve the traffic congestion of New York. He built the roads, bridges of New York but didn't invest in rapid transport systems for the masses. As a result, more people deserted the rapid transport systems and clogged the roads., and parking areas of New York, so that by the end of his reign it became clear that it didn’t matter how many new roads he built, more roads could never solve the congestion problems of New York

#GPFUQ 201 What's the worst mistake a competent doctor can make? 

Be aware of metacognitive processes  - think about what you think you are confident about…Your worst problem is when you are very confident but very wrong.

If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favour of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

Karl Popper. The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 29 The Unity of Method

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. Karl Popper

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper

#GPFUQ 202 How to have a better next year? 
•Have a better life as a GP – Increase your wellbeing – 5 a day may seem difficult at times but misery is optional
•Save the planet? RCGP launch the Green Impact for Health Toolkit and Awards today
•Help change the paradigm of general practice
•Use your Faculty – help make it the go to place for support, knowledge and inspiration
•Help our International Development Fund and our Student development Fund
•Apply for or nominate someone for Fellowship
•Help with the Cancer Audit
•Recruit one person to general practice
•Think about where you want to be in 10 years and how you are going to get there
•Have fun every day 
Dr. Terry Kemple Full Speech - RCGP Annual Conference 2016 see 20min 
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhuyBvhBx9E&feature=youtu.be