The world of Marvel movies and comics involves a whole multiverse where it can be hard to make sense of what’s really happening—which Spider-Man exists in which reality, or which main characters are actually dead or alive. As it’s a fantasy world, we can enjoy the moviemakers’ artistic licence in the spirit intended. A problem arises when that sort of fantastical approach starts to take hold in the NHS, when people create a parallel universe where the pandemic has been overcome, with no shred of the virus left. It’s in this world that government pronouncements on GP access have arrived. Amid some well meant intentions by the NHS to look at variation, along with “offers of help,” one initiative has caused much consternation—a government drive for more face-to-face consultations, despite an escalating infection rate and the near complete dismantling of social distancing rules and mask use. It’s as though Daily Mail readers or the tweets of a Paul3467 with two followers on Twitter have convinced everyone that, during a pandemic, face-to-face GP consultations are exactly the area to concentrate on. Add in the …

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Partha Kar：了解健康多元宇宙

漫威电影和漫画的世界涉及一个完整的多元宇宙，在那里很难理解真正发生的事情——哪个蜘蛛侠存在于哪个现实中，或者哪些主要角色实际上是死是活。因为这是一个奇幻世界，我们可以本着原意享受电影人的艺术授权。当这种奇特的方法开始在 NHS 中扎根时，问题就出现了，当人们创造了一个平行宇宙，在那里大流行已经被克服，没有一丝病毒留下。正是在这个世界上，政府关于 GP 访问的声明已经到来。在 NHS 考虑变化的一些善意意图以及“提供帮助”的同时，一项举措引起了极大的恐慌——政府推动更多面对面的磋商，尽管感染率不断上升，社交距离规则和口罩使用几乎完全取消。就好像每日邮报的读者或在 Twitter 上有两个追随者的 Paul3467 的推文让每个人都相信，在大流行期间，面对面的全科医生咨询正是需要关注的领域。加入…