{"id":82,"date":"2007-01-08T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/01\/08\/bmj-6-jan-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T11:27:03","slug":"bmj-6-jan-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/01\/08\/bmj-6-jan-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ 6 Jan 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Fiona Godlee first offered to take these reviews as a <em>BMJ <\/em>blog, I was given an assurance that I could be as beastly about her journal as I liked. To my surprise I don\u2019t find my beastliness index rising with this new-look magazine-style <em>BMJ<\/em>. I described its predecessor, when Richard Smith launched it, as wearing the loud jacket and suede shoes of a racecourse spiv, but with this relaunch, the mag at least wears decent modern dress.<!--more--> Personally, I think we GPs have lots of good free medical magazines offering news and updates already, and I\u2019d prefer to see the <em>BMJ <\/em>stuffed with good clinically applicable research &#8211; more like <em>JAMA <\/em>and less like <em>New Scientist. <\/em>But at least it hasn\u2019t gone all the way to <em>Cosmopolitan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/25\">older chaps with lower urinary tract symptoms<\/a> simply<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/25\"> learn to live with them<\/a>? This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/25\">trial <\/a>randomised men with LUTS either to standard management or to three sessions of group discussion lasting up to two hours. Amazingly, 93% of the blokes turned up to talk about their waterworks on all 3 occasions. And by and large, they got better.<\/p>\n<p>Having a tiny sick baby on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/28\">neonatal intensive care unit<\/a> involves horrors of anxiety and sleep deprivation for new parents, so it\u2019s not surprising that providing mothers with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/28\">taped conversations with neonatologists<\/a> improved their recall of information.<\/p>\n<p>I thought a Masterclass was an occasion when trembling novices were grouped in front of a great expert and discovered how lousy they were at making filou pastry or playing the cello; but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/41\">BMJ masterclasses for GPs<\/a> seem altogether friendlier, and this one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7583\/41\">dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori <\/a>is a decided credit to its author, a London GP &#8211; a model of clarity and practicality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Fiona Godlee first offered to take these reviews as a BMJ blog, I was given an assurance that I could be as beastly about her journal as I liked. 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