GPs’ demoralisation is due to our loss of human connection

A recent headline ‘Thousands of GPs “plan to quit”’1 heralded an accurate description of NHS GPs’ plummeting morale, resilience, and commitment. The journalists’ analysis then correctly identified our many problems: ever-increasing workload and stresses from ever-greater expectations of services; then rising litigation; all expressed in a population whose increasing longevity is bound to increase comorbidities. Yet all economically similar...