TY - JOUR T1 - Getting the swagger back into general practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 257 LP - 257 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X684973 VL - 65 IS - 634 AU - Adam Staten Y1 - 2015/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/634/257.abstract N2 - Perhaps there never was a golden age of general practice but it seems to me there was an era when GPs sustained their local community by delivering babies, performing operations, and only deferring to secondary care in exceptional circumstances. In short, they were warriors on the front line of medicine.This perception, erroneous though it may be, presents an attractive career option; variety, excitement, and respect. It is markedly different from the perception, again erroneous, that many trainees in secondary care specialties have of GPs as referral-wallahs, sifting the sick to the appropriate secondary-care specialist. In the first case a life as a GP seems full of opportunity to buckle your swash, while the second seems drab and uninspiring.The role of GPs has been greatly eaten away over the … ER -