TY - JOUR T1 - Debrief: Joining the cult JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 239 LP - 239 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X709613 VL - 70 IS - 694 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2020/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/694/239.abstract N2 - Predicting the consequences of COVID-19, intended and unintended, may be best left to those with ready access to tea leaves and sacred entrails. Immediate possibilities spring to mind: the wholesale reconfiguration of practices to telephone triage and video consultation will surely leave its mark and the economic cost will colour politics for a generation. As George Monbiot commented: ‘it may not be true that there were no atheists in the trenches, but there are no neoliberals in a pandemic’.1The post-pandemic rebuilding could be transformative — but surely the NHS can’t stomach another decade of austerity.One remarkable moment, among many, was when we graduated our final-year medical students early so they can be tossed into the COVID-19 fray. I had spoken to them a few weeks earlier on burnout. … ER -