{"id":77,"date":"2006-11-26T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-11-26T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T08:20:00","slug":"sunday-guest-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/11\/sunday-guest-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday guest booking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke Newington GP, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Dr Michael Fitzpatrick<\/span>, was on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">5 Live<\/span> this morning responding to the Government&#8217;s plan to survey 5 million patients. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6180176.stm\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Now I know it&#8217;s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another GP, is disingenuous. Dr Fitzpatrick is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tyranny-Health-Doctors-Regulation-Lifestyle\/dp\/0415235723\">author<\/a> and columnist with a distinct health agenda, and he used his radio slot to push his &#8220;worried well&#8221; hypothesis. Fitzpatrick recently popped up in a similar generic GP capacity on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Today<\/span>. When he pops up, interviewers could at least mention his back-story and his opinions. It&#8217;s not Fitzpatrick&#8217;s fault that he&#8217;s introduced so poorly, but it is a little sloppy to pass him off as a kind of medical &#8216;everyman.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the BBC should introduce an open access database to let people check up on guest booking &#8211; like the one they beta tested earlier this year? <\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick is another fellow traveller from the <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/uneven-battlefield-of-ideas_27.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Institute of Ideas<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke Newington GP, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, was on 5 Live this morning responding to the Government&#8217;s plan to survey 5 million patients. [BBC] Now I know it&#8217;s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,81],"tags":[15,11,78],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","tag-bbc","tag-today","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}