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More miles, fewer biscuits

BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7504.0-g (Published 09 June 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:0-h
  1. Fiona Godlee, editor (fgodlee@bmj.com)

Editing is a sedentary profession. We sit at our computers doling out decisions and emailing colleagues sitting at the next desk. We might, if the mood takes us, wander out for a spot of lunch before the afternoon's editorial meeting, at which we pick over piles of manuscripts and plates of BMA biscuits. Only the stress of it all keeps us thin.

Hospital medicine is by comparison far from sedentary. As house officers in the mid-1980s we averaged several miles a day along the hospital corridors. I don't know what the current mileage is but the European Working Time Directive …

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