On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings: Medical humour has implications for evidence based medicine…

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John Attia (john.attia@newcastle.edu.au), senior lecturer,
Kichu Nair, professor of geriatrics

John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Level 3, David Maddison Building, Newcastle, New South Wales 2300, Australia
John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton, New South Wales 2305, Australia

EDITOR—Every year the BMJ and Medical Journal of Australia use their Christmas edition to inject some medical humour into the normally serious scientific literature. In this spirit we put together a fictional study entitled “Evidence based physicians' dressing: a cross-over trial,”1 in which we documented the effect of “retro” dress (flared jeans, Hawaiian shirts, moussed …