Richard Smith asks who is the E O Wilson of medicine?

A friend has written to me asking whom I think might be the “E O Wilson of Medicine,” and I’m stumped. Perhaps some readers of the BMJ have never heard of E O Wilson. For those that haven’t he is a Harvard biologist who has twice won the Pullitzer Prize and who invented “consilience,” the […]

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Support small charities, says Peter Lapsley

It is very good to see Changing Faces nominated as the BMA charity of the year, both because it is an outstanding organisation and because the nomination recognises a reality of which too many people are unaware. I know Changing Faces well. Run by its founder, the indefatigable James Partridge, it supports and represents people […]

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