BMJ  2005;330 (26 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7489.0-g

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Affairs of the thorax

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The BMJ strives to help doctors in their clinical practice. An important difference between the BMJ and the Lancet, as one Lancet editor described it, is that the BMJ publishes articles focusing on the point of delivery in health care, where doctor meets patient and policy maker meets policy. Some, possibly too many, readers believe that our vision has drifted woefully from the point of delivery to an obsession with health policy and the "softer" social and political issues that are mere eyewash to dedicated clinicians (pp 474, 478). Our view is that a good journal incorporates all these elements and that diversity is the strength of the BMJ. Even so, we spend a great deal of time trying to find ways to publish more papers of clinical relevance,

This week we cut through the soft underbelly of social medicine to report findings that should interest . . . [Full text of this article]

Kamran Abbasi, acting editor

(kabbasi@bmj.com)


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