BMJ  2006;333 (15 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7559.0-f

Editor's choice

B is for British

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It's traditional at the BMJ to worry about the B. It stands for British in case you didn't know. On the one hand we are very proud of it but sometimes it seems to stand between us and our international aspirations. A few years ago our editorial board seriously discussed changing the name to the Global or the World Medical Journal. Nothing happened so I guess the decision was no.

Now I have a new worry. Have we become the English Medical Journal? So much of our coverage is about England, so little about the other parts of the UK. In the past month we ran four editorials and 19 news stories on the NHS. All except one were about the NHS in England. Perhaps there is nothing going on elsewhere in the UK, but I don't think so. I think we have defaulted to the same biases . . . [Full text of this article]

Fiona Godlee, editor

(fgodlee@bmj.com)


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