The Daily Telegraph

Virtual medicine

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SIR – As medical students at Glasgow University in the 1970s, we were advised to “put your finger in it before you put your foot in it”. This advice served me well during my career.

Can the work-from-home consultant­s (Letters, May 20) please show how this can be done virtually? Dr Richard AE Grove

Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshi­re

SIR – At the start of the Covid pandemic I stopped going into my department for two sessions a week and had a home workstatio­n. After a year I stopped working completely.

I missed being able to share informatio­n easily with colleagues and I especially missed my contact with junior radiologis­ts in training.

Alan Grundy

Retired consultant radiologis­t Surbiton, Surrey

SIR – While one cannot expect to have more leisure time and do less work for the same amount of money (Letters, May 20), it seems like a perfectly rational desire.

The romantic ideas of vocation and duty are the exception rather than the norm.if anyone disagrees, just give them a £184 million lottery jackpot (report, May 20) and see what happens. Jonathan Ricks

Southampto­n

SIR – I am not looking forward to the next series of Line of Duty, as it may be a rather dull affair with all the detectives working from home (“Murder cases being investigat­ed from home, claims police chief ”, report, May 20).

Steve Siddall

Holt, Wiltshire

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