Abstract: I have to confess that it is not often that reading anything in the BJGP changes my practice or even arouses more than a flicker of curious interest. However James Willis's review1 of The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist2 inspired me to read the book, which has in its turn set me thinking about much that I encounter both as an individual and as a GP in a new light. McGilchrist's thesis is that our brain has two complimentary halves which approach the world in different ways. The right cerebral hemisphere is more concerned with connect...
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Topics: 
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive science
Epistemology