BMJ  2006;332 (3 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7553.0-f

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The BMJ's shortcuts (p 1327) are our look at the research papers in the other big general journals. From this week on we are offering another view through Richard Lehman's blog on bmj.com (bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7553/DC1). Richard Lehman is an Oxfordshire general practitioner who started writing a weekly review of JAMA, the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and the BMJ for a few friends; the circulation then grew to the primary care department at Oxford University and beyond. We've been enjoying his review in the BMJ's office for some time, and we thought our readers might too.

Richard puts in as many "tempters" for journal papers as he can manage on two sides of A4: "I regard them more as an illustration of my view of the medical humanities than evidence based medicine." And he tries to find space for a filler, often . . . [Full text of this article]

Jane Smith, deputy editor

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