This is the paper for the Wes Fabb Oration for the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2011. This paper will review the case for the important role of the family physician/general practitioner in worldwide health care as determined by the WHO. The importance of continuing care is highlighted. The features of a good doctor will be defined and the process of meeting this challenge for excellen...

Selected Writings ofLord Moynihan: A Centenary Volume, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., for The Osler Club of London, 1967, pp. xiv, 177, illus., 63s. Od. This book, which is designed as a centenary tribute to Lord Moynihan, who was born on 2 October 1865, includes an admirable short biography by A. White Franklin; a charming note by W. R. Bett about the meeting of the Osler Club on 19 Ma...

This article discusses Cassius Dio’s political thought in his AgrippaMaecenas debate (52.2–40) through the use of a form of content analysis developed by political scientists called “operational code analysis.” It offers a description of operational code analysis, which demonstrates the value of this method to the debate. It then presents an examination of Dio’s operational code, from which one...

As an old friend and admirer of the Heberden Society, I have enjoyed many times the privilege of hearing the Heberden Oration delivered by some outstanding physician, but it came as a great surprise to be asked to deliver the Oration this year. I appreciate immensely this mark of friendship, and to-day I propose to record the work of three great French physicians who co-operated in laying the b...