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In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general.<\/p>\nIn the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general.<\/p>\n
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David Payne, editor bmj.com<\/strong>: Although I’ve got 350 pages still to read, I’m completely hooked, so I may mange to finish it in time as I have two weekend train journeys to make. Kaplan describes his time as a surgeon working in apartheid South Africa and other places, including London.\u00a0 Chapter 2 begins with a fascinating description of the abdomen wall cleaving under the line of the knife, the “creamy fat” and milky blue membrane of the peritoneum, loops of pulsating “neatly layered bowel.”<\/p>\n I’m also reading http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/sep\/13\/my-paper-chase-harold-evans<\/a> I’ve read lots of J D Salinger obituaries following his recent death. It’s made me want to re-read Catcher in the Rye<\/em> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye<\/a>\u00a0 (the last time was in 1977, when I was 11) for next month’s book club.<\/p>\n Lucy Banham, deputy managing editor<\/strong>: Birte Twisselmann, deputy editor bmj.com<\/strong>: My bright idea: Jaron Lanier http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/feb\/21\/my-bright-idea-jaron-lanier<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou Are Not a Gadget\u201d \u2014 Why Open Culture and Technocentric Philosophies Are Ruining Our Lives Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked<\/em>. http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Juliet-Naked-Nick-Hornby\/dp\/0141020644\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267179771&sr=8-1<\/a><\/p>\n Kohnen, T; Baumeister, M; Kook, D; Klaproth, O K; Ohrloff, C. Cataract Surgery With Implantation of an Artificial Lens<\/em>. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106(43): 695-702. http:\/\/www.aerzteblatt.de\/int\/article.asp?src=search&id=66463&p=kohnen+cataract<\/a><\/p>\n Val McDermid, Fever of the bone<\/em>. Featuring a voice-technology activated social networking site\u2014scary!<\/p>\n Edward Davies, editor BMJ Careers<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article7041697.ece<\/a> Interestingly most of the editorials have taken a fairly neutral line doing a lengthy job of saying very little. The columns, however, commissioned by the Times and Guardian, are more pro change in the law. I’ve also not noticed a single comment yet from the medical world and given that this is a patient safety issue at heart, I find that slightly alarming.<\/p>\n Juliet Walker, assistant web editor<\/strong>: David Isaacson, doc2doc community manager<\/strong>: \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]<\/p>\n
\nI have just two days to get through Jonathan Kaplan’s http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/reviews\/contact-wounds-a-war-surgeons-education-by-jonathan-kaplan-525892.html<\/a> The Dressing Station<\/em> as it’s being discussed at my monthly book group, attended also by fellow BMJ colleagues Trevor Jackson and Rebecca Coombes.<\/p>\n
\nMy Paper Chase<\/em>, the autobiography of Harold Evans, former editor of The Times<\/em> and Sunday Times<\/em>. The chapter on the thalidomide scandal in the early 1960s is fascinating. It describes his battle with the then health minister Enoch Powell, who was reluctant to devote Parliamentary time to discussing compensation because it was sub judice as some parents had launched legal action against the drug’s manufacturer, Distillers http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Distillers_Company_Limited<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAn American professor of physics says that Hollywood filmmakers should pay more attention to the laws of science. Would his guidelines help to enrich plots with logic, or be a geeky indulgence that hampers the imagination?
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2010\/feb\/21\/hollywood-films-obey-laws-science<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGoogled: The End of the World as We Know It<\/em> by Ken Auletta http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/feb\/21\/googled-ken-auletta<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2010\/02\/22\/you-are-not-a-gadget-why-open-culture-and-technocentric-philosophies-are-ruining-our-lives\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI’ve been following the response to the guidelines on assisted dying. Most newspapers have written editorials or commissioned columns on it. Here’s a selection:<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/personal-view\/7313579\/Assisted-suicide-must-not-be-legalised-through-the-back-door.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/feb\/25\/assisted-dying-guidelines-law<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/leading-articles\/leading-article-clarity-in-the-law-is-not-always-for-the-best-1911088.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8270302.stm<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAn interesting blog on the Guardian\u2019s book blog about a Berlin literary scandal http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2010\/feb\/15\/plagiarism-germany-helene-hegemann<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHow to disappear from facebook and twitter \u2013 web 2.0 suicide
\nhttp:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1954631,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n