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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift. And then some one says: \u201cSorry\u2026.. but are you really a doctor?\u201d\n\nPenny Wilson burst onto the scene a few years back when an article that she wrote on her NomadicGP blog hit a nerve. The nerve in question is about sexism and misogyny. It was about people not believing that Penny was a doctor because she was a young woman. She wrote about it and a lot of people read it. She had only been writing the blog for 6 months and BANG she is on the Huffington Post.\nThen comes the back lash.\nOnly a few months later she is back in the Huffington Post wrestling with another significant prejudice. \n\u201cAre you a specialist or are you just a GP?\u201d\n\nJenny and I have a talk about her life being \u201cjust a GP\u201d in which she does almost no work at all that most folks would recognise as \u201cjust a GP\u201d kind of work. She is some sort of Obstetrician/Emergency Physician Hybrid about 8 hours flight from the ivory towers of Perth in Western Australia. It is frightening stuff. I am certainly a bit scared of obstetric emergencies. Maybe you are? Maybe you\u2019re not? Maybe you know everything there is to know about it? Maybe you don\u2019t? Penny has tried to get a #FOAMed resource up and running for O&G, ObGyn, Obs & Gobs, Obstetrics & Gynaecology; the fabulously named https://bitsandbumps.org \n\nI hate the phrase \u201cjust a GP\u201d. It underestimates the work of GPs. It undermines the specialty of General Practice. It has undertones of elitism and snobbery. Being a good GP is one of the hardest jobs in Medicine. There is no limit to what you need to know. There is no way you can be an expert in everything. Ask any specialist who has retrained as a GP? Ask yourself if they are one of the good GP\u2019s I am talking about?\n\nI have tried it and I can tell you that almost every time you see a patient with a given problem something will have changed from the last time you dealt with it. Either the tests have changed, or the medications have changed, or the guidelines have changed, or the support services have changed, or the referral destinations have changed, or the government forms you have to fill out have changed or the way you and your practice gets paid has changed. \n\nAs Heraclitoris said; \u201cNo woman ever steps in the same river twice.\u201d\n\nWhen you meet Jenny you don\u2019t get the impression that she is out to cause trouble. She is just commenting on this stuff from a personal and important perspective. That didn\u2019t mean that she didn\u2019t get attacked though.