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Telemedicine: unseen unknowns

BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3701 (Published 23 September 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3701
  1. Nathaniel J T Aspray, GP registrar
  1. Northumbria GP Training Programme, Manor House, Coach Lane Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7XA, UK
  1. naspray{at}doctors.org.uk

After reading this article and the many Twitter conversations it sparked, I was glad to see that there are many GPs and other community workers who are uneasy with a blanket switch to remote consultation as default.1 I have, however, been intrigued that these conversations have largely taken place around the matter of clinical safety and the “unknown unknowns,” rather …

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