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Helen Salisbury: With fewer patients in surgery, how do we train GPs?

BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3328 (Published 01 September 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3328

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Re: Helen Salisbury: With fewer patients in surgery, how do we train GPs?

Dear Editor

We are still in an awful pandemic. Everything has changed, and I am convinced, that our life after corona will be never the same. We have to cope and we have to adapt. This is indeed for all GP trainees and their teachers (for us all) a big challenge. New GPs ENTER a somewhat strange medical platform. Therefore, our experience as older GPs and our empathy and relationship to patients will give our newcomers a useful and important guidance through very stormy days, weeks, perhaps years with SARS CoV 2.

Competing interests: No competing interests

04 September 2020
Dr Heike Braun
GP
26506 Norden, Germany