TY - JOUR T1 - Global primary care is local primary care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 329 LP - 329 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X719909 VL - 72 IS - 720 AU - Andrew Papanikitas Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/720/329.abstract N2 - My childhood hero from the British television series, Doctor Who, is a traveller in time and space, who claims to be a ‘citizen of the universe’.1 With such a literally cosmopolitan2 ethic, The Doctor was incapable of ignoring injustice anywhere he/she (it’s complicated!) came across it. Even with such a ‘woke’ role-model, I regret that I used to get annoyed with colleagues more focused on international than domestic concerns — there is, after all, so much local need and controversy in the UK primary care setting. When we are struggling here, why should we care what happens there? And yet, the first 20 years of the century have more than demonstrated that it is no longer possible to maintain a geographically or professionally insular attitude to practice. The selection of articles … ER -