TY - JOUR T1 - Spectacular health care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 500 LP - 500 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X712841 VL - 70 IS - 699 AU - Sati Heer-Stavert Y1 - 2020/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/699/500.abstract N2 - In a society where only the healthy receive health care, the cure becomes the disease. COVID-19 has demonstrated to the nation and reminded us of the responsive nature of primary care. However, the question of why this truism had to be paraded across various media is an important but avoided one. Perhaps it is because representation of experience rather than experience itself has come to dominate the value of anything in the modern age.The primary medium of representation in our time is that of images. Television broadcasts showing individuals clapping outside their homes for the NHS juxtaposed with those of PPE shortages and deceased healthcare staff create a fragmented pseudo-reality that simultaneously unifies and separates. The omnipresence of social media means no individual is immune.Never have we been so close yet so far apart from one another. Into this inverted world, GPs now find themselves at the threshold of seemingly irreversible change: a concerted transition to default video consultation catalysed by a pandemic.It is … ER -