This is a very important subject and I do not wish to ‘land’ it on Planet Trivia, yet there are others besides children who are also dependent on their screens and to be honest, I read the article title1 as applying to many GPs in the UK. Many of the public, including myself, are really fortunate to be registered with many an excellent and caring GP and there is a technology in the consultation room that perhaps we are increasingly in danger of abandoning, namely the billions of mirror neurones that rely on visual information to generate empathy and rapport with patients. Every glance away at a computer screen or worse, being serially embedded in it, for reasons of QOF, personal acopia, or lost or never-present skills, represents the placement of this required and increasingly essential human brain-derived technology in front of those that have derived from the human brain — once described as the ‘most complex mechanism in the known universe’.
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