Pandemic aftermath: GPs are disaster responders now

“A pandemic fundamentally changes the social contract between the public and healthcare workers. The patients you saw in 2019 are gone. The harm of the pandemic will be experienced for a minimum of 10 to 30 years, and it will hit primary care the very hardest.“GPs are now frontline disaster responders and will be for many, many years to come.“You know the consequences of the pandemic better than me: illness, viral, and other types of delayed illnesses. We had to prepare for two types of deaths in pandemic planning: the acute deaths in the initial stages of the pandemic, and the excess deaths that occur 10 to 15 years after the pandemic from delayed cardiology, delayed oncology, from poorly managed diabetes, from other things from dental infections to urinary tract infections. At three years post-pandemic we would also expect to see somatic symptoms, with a massive increase in insomnia, rashes,…
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