John Launer: Screen encounters and false impressions

I recently had an unnerving experience. I met someone I’d seen several times before, and she looked completely different from how I remembered her. Her hair was lighter and longer, and she was taller. Her manner was engaging and relaxed, although in our previous encounters I’d considered her to be rather tense and spiky. The contrast between the image I’d formed of her and the person I now saw was so disorienting that it took me a while to dispel from my mind the woman I thought I knew and to relate to her anew.In case you haven’t already guessed, this was the first time she and I had met face to face. Over the past few years I’d met her only on Zoom.A great deal has already been said and written about the effects of meeting people remotely, whether they’re patients, trainees, or colleagues. Some of these effects have…
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