{"id":32967,"date":"2014-12-12T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=32967"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:18:19","slug":"the-bmj-today-christmas-has-hit-the-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2014\/12\/12\/the-bmj-today-christmas-has-hit-the-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Christmas has hit the fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re getting festive in <em>BMJ<\/em> Towers, mince pies, tinsel, and dubious jumper choices abound. So settle back and let the Christmas issue relax you like a postprandial sherry.<\/p>\n<p>What makes a good playlist? This is a much more complicated question than I had first suspected, and some strong opinions were expressed by colleagues. (Most militantly by Navjoyt Ladher, our clinical reviews editor, who is a strict adherent of <em>High Fidelity<\/em> protagonist Rob Gordon\u2019s method: \u201cThe making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don\u2019t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>David Bosanquet, and his surgical colleagues from Cardiff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7436\">have editorialised the evidence of medical music<\/a>, and serial Christmas author Rob Stepney and his son Nick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7179\">have examined the portrayal of doctors in the charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what makes the perfect surgical playlist? Do orthopods prefer soft rock, are neurosurgeons all listening to Robert Glass? We want you to share your crafted listening experiences with us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7436\/submit-a-rapid-response\">in a rapid response to Bosanquet\u2019s Editorial<\/a>, and we\u2019ll collate them on <a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.com\/playlists\">bmj.com\/playlists<\/a> (you can follow us on Spotify now too\u2014the-bmj).<\/p>\n<p>GPs, as your lists grow as patients make appointments before the festive period kicks off, have a think about how your colleagues at Westgate Health Centre in Dundee have done\u2014they explain how their \u201cguarantee to be seen\u201d promise has been implemented and has become a raging success with patients and practitioners alike in our Christmas Feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7228\">The King Canute GP appointment system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Duncan Jarvies<\/strong>\u00a0is multimedia producer for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re getting festive in BMJ Towers, mince pies, tinsel, and dubious jumper choices abound. So settle back and let the Christmas issue relax you like a postprandial sherry. What makes a good playlist? This is a much more complicated question than I had first suspected, and some strong opinions were expressed by colleagues. (Most militantly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2014\/12\/12\/the-bmj-today-christmas-has-hit-the-fan\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}