Deciding on whether to review a book of general interest is always a problem: you need to read it to know. So I read Peter Tate’s collection of articles from Education for Primary Care. As the author would say, let me declare an interest—I am not a clinician. But, like all medically qualified non-clinicians, I might have been and thus books like this have an appeal. The author has had a long career as a general practitioner, …