The Annual Congress of the Dutch College of GPs

[摘要] We have a lot to learn from the Dutch College of GPs when it comes to finding a winning formula for an annual meeting. In fact, having attended the 2005 meeting in the Hague last month to give (to my astonishment) its opening keynote address, I think we have a lot to learn from the Dutch. We have a lot in common with them, including, most importantly on this occasion, a common language — 95% of the entire population can converse in English. General practice in the Netherlands is similar to ours and it is undergoing similar changes. And Dutch GPs share British GPs' ambivalence towards what is happening. As the conference chairman, Henk van Weert, said when he invited me, ‘… your book The Paradox of Progress gives word to feelings, that are found by many Dutch GPs.’

[学科分类] 卫生学