Editor's Choice
Affairs of the thorax
BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7489.0-g (Published 24 February 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:0-g
- Kamran Abbasi, acting editor (kabbasi@bmj.com)
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The BMJ strives to help doctors in their clinical practice. An important difference between the BMJ and the Lancet, as one Lancet editor described it, is that the BMJ publishes articles focusing on the point of delivery in health care, where doctor meets patient and policy maker meets policy. Some, possibly too many, readers believe that our vision has drifted woefully from the point of delivery to an obsession with health policy and the “softer” social and political issues that are mere eyewash to dedicated clinicians (pp 474, 478). Our view is that a good journal …