TY - JOUR T1 - Time for a little self-love? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 78 LP - 78 DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X714809 VL - 71 IS - 703 AU - Ed Warren Y1 - 2021/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/71/703/78.abstract N2 - What will post-pandemic general practice look like? The pre-COVID-19 environment wasn’t that wonderful for GPs anyway. Workload issues and burnout were increasing, and the latest fall in GP numbers1 will not help.GPs have always felt abused, that they don’t have the time and resources to do their job properly. However, this was only ever some GPs. Others can glide through an entire career with a minimum of alarms. How do they do this? Resilience is not the full story. I suggest that there are attitudes worth cultivating because they are potentially protective against being overwhelmed by the work.GP intuition is apparently a good way of diagnosing cancer.2 But is it just cancer? It is known that experienced GPs get better results on several measures of efficiency and healthcare competence.3 So why are older GPs better at the job (interest declared)?Some GPs (invariably senior) … ER -