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For Who Do You Serve?

28 November 2024
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Callum Leese is a GP in Tayside and an Academic Fellow in General Practice at University of Dundee with an interest in physical activity for health, and champion for physical activity and lifestyle at the Royal College of General Practitioners.

 

Your vibrancy is dulled,
Illness casting its shade.
You come to me for help, restoration,
But how can I restore what I do not know?
For my attention is elsewhere,
Occupied by a mere digital abstraction,
The computer between us acting as a physical metaphor.
It is not that I do not care for you.
I just no longer serve you.
The tools created to serve us, have become our masters.

 

Featured photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash.

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