Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Observations Out of Hours

Lactation wars

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d835 (Published 09 February 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:d835

Rapid Response:

Rapid Response

Having read this article in my print copy of the BMJ, but then using
my phone to access online, I can't help wondering if this horse has
already left the stable?

Before rapid response, Twitter and others, did people not work
themselves into confusion regarding new clinical research?

New social media and the internet in general seems to me to provide a
wider forum for debate then ever before, and if the cost for this is to
take what you read with a pinch of salt, is it not to be welcomed?

Competing interests: No competing interests

14 February 2011
Andy Shepherd
CT1 Trainee psychiatry
GMW Mental Health Trust