BMJ  2006;333 (23 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39069.589792.47

Editor's Choice

Editor's choice

Get inspired, again

¹ tdelamothe@bmj.com

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Doctors don't need to look far to find reasons to be glum this festive season. If their jobs don't depress them, the behaviour of many of their national politicians will. And if not that, how about the state of our fragile planet?

Yet doom and gloom seems an inadequate response to this world and its teeming possibilities. Students begin their medical careers inspired by these possibilities. Why can't we keep that early inspirational flame burning as brightly throughout those careers?

A single issue of a single medical journal is not going to do it, but we wanted to flag up the challenge as worthy of attention. In these pages, you'll find a host of inspirational ideas, people, stories, and activities. But rest assured, not everything is inspirational. We've still found room for the age old enmity between physicians and surgeons—played out this time over physical appearance (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39015.672373.80)—and a . . . [Full text of this article]

CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

Related Articles

Scrooge and intellectual property rights

Joseph E Stiglitz
BMJ 2006 333: 1279-1280. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

How Web 2.0 is changing medicine

Dean Giustini
BMJ 2006 333: 1283-1284. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Phenotypic differences between male physicians, surgeons, and film stars: comparative study

Antoni Trilla, Marta Aymerich, Antonio M Lacy, and Maria J Bertran
BMJ 2006 333: 1291-1293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

The ideal tool for decorators: a novel use for disposable laryngoscope blades

R J Green and J M T Pierce
BMJ 2006 333: 1297-1298. [Full Text] [PDF]

Maggie's Centres

Edwin Heathcote
BMJ 2006 333: 1304-1305. [Full Text] [PDF]

Another reason for opening access to research

John Wilbanks
BMJ 2006 333: 1306-1308. [Full Text] [PDF]

Startling technologies promise to transform medicine

C Donald Combs
BMJ 2006 333: 1308-1311. [Full Text] [PDF]

A multicolour chart for doctors

Hanna Esser and Gerhard Esser
BMJ 2006 333: 1319. [Extract] [Full Text]

Living conditions

David Loxterkamp
BMJ 2006 333: 1323-1325. [Full Text] [PDF]

Rapid Responses:

Read all Rapid Responses

What's that, again?

Penetralia Mentis
bmj.com, 2 Jan 2007 [Full text]