Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

WSJ: The Journeying Dyslexic's Lament

"There is good clinical evidence that longer consultations will allow us to do that, but if we are to meet all the targets the government is setting us we need far more GPs, and more nurses, " he added.

BBC: GP consultation