What our advisory board can, and can't, tell us

doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.574676.47

BMJ 2008;336 (10 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.574676.47

Editor's Choice

Editor’s Choice

What our advisory board can, and can’t, tell us

Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ

fgodlee@bmj.com

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Since the BMJ set up its editorial advisory board in 1997, arolling cast of medicine’s finest has been on hand tosupport and challenge the journal (http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/about-bmj/editorial-advisory-board).Each year when we gather in London for the annual meeting, aswe did last week, the personalities, expertise, and advice aresubtly different. This year for the first time, the meetingincluded editors in chief of the BMJ’s 26 sister journals(http://group.bmj.com/products/journals), bringing not onlyknowledge of their own discipline but an instinct for what journalscan and can’t do.

The discussion was as inspiring and wide ranging as ever: theglobal food crisis; the loss of one to one personal care ingeneral practice; the "procedurisation" of secondary care, withspecialists being asked to operate on patients they haven’tseen before; the need to rethink medical ethics, which has becometoo bound up with the . . . [Full text of this article]

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