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Dr Jonathon Tomlinson
GP
Jonathon Tomlinson has been a GP and educator at the Lawson Practice for almost 20 years. His clinical practice is grounded in continuity of care and human relationships. His clinical interests are intractable problems like chronic pain. He is chair of trustees for the Centre for Health and The Public Interest and a Trustee for the Shoreditch Trust and a member of the London Aces Hub. His interest in trauma has developed at the same pace as his relationships with his patients.
Over years he has learned from them how past and present experiences form constellations that can help to make meaning out of suffering. The associations between adversity, pain and disease are complex, asynchronous, and buffered or fuelled by social circumstances. Working in an area of deprivation he sees how austerity illuminates and amplifies vulnerability. He is a husband to Laura and a dad to boys and a cyclist who rides just a bit faster than his skills permit, so regularly experiences being an NHS patient.
