Published 9 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2033
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2033

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A difficult balance

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My predecessor but one, Stephen Lock, chose to call the book he wrote towards the end of his 16 years as editor "A difficult balance." It was a good choice. Getting the right balance in a general medical journal is an editor’s greatest challenge. The BMJ walks various tightropes—or, put more positively, attempts to bridge many divides: between primary and secondary care, clinical medicine and public health, health care and health policy, the UK and the rest of the world, online and print, magazine and journal. One good thing is that when the balance tips too far in any one direction, readers are quick to tell us. Another good thing is that we have more readers of the BMJ now than ever before.

One of the BMJ’s core functions is to help to get good research into practice—what’s now called knowledge translation—whether in clinical medicine, public health, or health . . . [Full text of this article]

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