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Your feature on the election would have been more interesting and
lively had it not relied so heavily on the usual suspects, many of them
London-based. As members of the metropolitan commentariat their views are
already widely-known and paraded regularly in most of the health journals,
including the BMJ, and other media. So few surprises and no new insights.
A missed opportunity.
Usual Suspects
Your feature on the election would have been more interesting and
lively had it not relied so heavily on the usual suspects, many of them
London-based. As members of the metropolitan commentariat their views are
already widely-known and paraded regularly in most of the health journals,
including the BMJ, and other media. So few surprises and no new insights.
A missed opportunity.
Competing interests:
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