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I have just hosted the first European conference on systemic family medicine. This happened more or less accidentally. I have a good friend in Finland, Pekka Larivaara, who is the only professor of systemic family medicine in Europe. Pekka asked me a few months ago if he could bring over some GPs to meet like-minded colleagues in Britain. I sent round a few emails to people who might be interested, and then decided it might be fun to invite some contacts in other countries too. They