BMJ  2007;334 (16 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39245.525046.47

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Lives lived

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Miles and Jo Weatherall were married 62 years and died within a few months of each other. Their obituaries tell of their many medical and academic achievements, but it's the glimpses into the lives they lived outside work that touched me more as a reader (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39241.578160.BE doi: 10.1136/bmj.39241.530116.BE). Another obituary records a much shorter and all too different life: that of a young academic in Iraq. Khalid Tariq Al Naib, a medical microbiologist, was kidnapped and murdered in Baghdad on 30 March, on the day he returned from a sabbatical in Australia (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39234.632002.BE). One reason for his trip was to learn how to improve scientific training and development in Iraq.

"Nothing is static, nothing is absolute, nothing remains the same for ever, least of all the thought and life of a human being," Richard Lehman observes in his weekly journal blog on bmj.com (http://blogs.bmj.com/category/comment/medical-journals-review). . . . [Full text of this article]

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