TY - JOUR T1 - Viewpoint: Redundant subjectivity? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 170 LP - 170 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X690257 VL - 67 IS - 657 AU - Stephen Pattison Y1 - 2017/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/657/170.abstract N2 - I actively avoid going to my GP. One who ‘should know better’, over the years I have developed an increasing aversion to visiting the hard-working souls charged with my primary care. At the heart of this, I think, is the feeling that my subjectivity is now redundant and disregarded.I go to the GP with a small number of problems, important to me, but apparently insignificant to them. Instead of attending to my concerns, the GP, gazing first at a computer screen, and then, driven perhaps by prompts and advice from government and other health bodies, takes my blood pressure and interrogates me on my lifestyle before giving me unsought advice about living a healthier life (as if I didn’t know that I could do that, and were not ashamed of the … ER -