TY - JOUR T1 - The many flavours of justice in primary care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 270 LP - 270 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X719597 VL - 72 IS - 719 AU - Andrew Papanikitas Y1 - 2022/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/719/270.abstract N2 - On occasion when I have asked medical students or GP trainees what they understand about medical ethics, I have had an answer that goes something like, ‘Oh … it’s beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy … and the other one.’ But what about ‘the other one’? This is justice, the oft-neglected notion that we should treat equals equally and unequals unequally according to morally appropriate differences. Justice is the invisible elephant in primary care’s consulting room. It can easily be forgotten or deliberately sacrificed as other duties and responsibilities are nearer to us within physical space, obligation, or preference. These other considerations can make us fail to recognise the bigger and more complex picture of primary care.On the BJGP Life site we have a series of articles on the Ukraine conflict in relation to primary health care. A sense of justice here speaks to the idea that those … ER -