"Are there any doctors here?"

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.167

BMJ 2005;331:167 (16 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.167

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"Are there any doctors here?"

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As soon as I heard the bang, I knew it was a bomb. Thunder doesn'tsound that brutal or shake the building like that. At the timeI was in a meeting room in BMA House with a visitor to the BMJ."That's a bomb," I said, as my visitor and I leapt from ourseats and ran out into the main editorial office. Everyone wasrushing to the balcony to see what had happened. Even beforeI got close to the edge I knew from the contorted expressionsetched into the faces of my friends and colleagues looking downon to the street two floors below that it was something horrific.Some of them were wailing. I peered over the edge for an aerialview of a most sickening scene. The roof of the crippled bus—thenumber 30 that was destroyed in a terrorist attack in Tavistock. . . [Full text of this article]