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My last rant

I expect that this will be my last opinionated rant for the editorial pages of the BCMJ. I joined the Editorial Board back in the old days when Dr Hardyment was the editor, and I  stayed on this most enjoyable of... Read More

Back to basics

I was surprised to get a phone call from the editor during which he asked me to return to the Editorial Board as a stand-in for Dr Brian Day, who is rather too busy elsewhere at present to attend Editorial Board... Read More

General surgeons: More are needed

As a senior general surgeon I have watched over the years as surgery has been dissected into smaller and smaller subspecialties. When I was in training, there were only 9 main surgical divisions; now there are 19, and... Read More

Where are we going?

The practice of medicine is changing rapidly—or so it seems to me. It may be a characteristic of my own aging that I have this impression, since it seems that hours, days, and weeks are also passing at an accelerating... Read More

Time

I am probably an old fogey and given to ranting on occasion, but something has happened to the practice of medicine that makes me reluctant to admit that I am a doctor to those who do not already know. I have been out... Read More

Oops, or the uses of error

In a recent editorial by the esteemed JAW I was berated soundly and justifiably for failing to produce an editorial piece when it was my turn to do so. I made a mistake; an error of omission. My excuse that I was out of... Read More