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		<title>Julian Sheather on moral responsibilities</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have been watching the French crime series Spiral (Engrenages) . The title refers to the way an investigation into a prostitute&#8217;s murder - she is dumped naked on a refuse heap - coils through the many layers of French society from its violent streets to its ruthless bureaux of power. At one...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan on how to kiss during a flu pandemic</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/NJQTW2wNIh8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/23/tom-nolan-on-how-to-kiss-during-a-flu-pandemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The first cases of H1N1 infection resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) spreading from person-to-person were found in Wales last week. The spread of the resistant strain occurred at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and all five people affected have “severe underlying health conditions”...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Siddhartha Yadav reminisces about his BMJ Clegg Scholarship</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/auaGnFa1LQs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/23/siddhartha-yadav-reminisces-about-his-bmj-clegg-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The BMJ has now called for applications for the Clegg Scholarship 2010. So, I think this might be the right time to talk about my own experiences as a Clegg Scholar and how I have fared since then.
If you ask me to name one thing that Clegg Scholarship is all about, I can’t. I [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tony Delamothe: The Ethics of Assisted Dying - Lord Harries’s lecture</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/ohwoMk28Pk0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/23/tony-delamothe-the-ethics-of-assisted-dying-lord-harriess-lecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because the House of Commons won&#8217;t touch end of life issues with a bargepole the House of Lords is the place to watch.
So I went to hear the inaugural Elson Ethics Lecture,  given by Lord Richard  Harries of Pentregarth, on the ethics of assisted dying.(Held at Windsor Castle, we entered via...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith on learning leadership from Henry V</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/CEjvKpiqADg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/23/richard-smith-on-learning-leadership-from-henry-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I was privileged to hear a brilliant talk—by Nicholas Janni—on what Henry V or rather Shakespeare has to teach us about leadership.
Prince Harry was, as most people know, a dissolute youth, hanging out with drunks, pimps, whores, and undesirables with the great Falstaff chief among them....<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Emily Spry: The devil is in the detail</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/98iH9k3_-2o/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/20/emily-spry-the-devil-is-in-the-detail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Spry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It might seem odd that the most challenging folk to work with here are not the Sierra Leonean ones.  Sometimes the toughest part is dealing with the endeavours of my fellow &#8220;whiteman&#8221;.
&#8220;Development&#8221; can be a painful business.  It’s painful because of the contrast between...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Douglas Noble on patient safety</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/0KsOtKWEAs8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/20/douglas-noble-on-patient-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ineffectively communicated clinical information has been estimated to be responsible for up to 10% of all preventable medical errors.  Stanton et al, in their recent book on clinical leadership, reveal that 70% of information is communicated non-verbally.
Whatever way it&#8217;s delivered to us,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley: Of mice and real people</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/ZTRG8Gcqh-w/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/19/domhnall-macauley-of-mice-and-real-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do you dither with your mouse? Who would have thought there could be any new angles on consultation analysis! Simon de Lusignan (St Georges, University of London) had some new insights in his keynote address at NAPCRG (North American Primary Care Research Group). Linking three way video and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Annabel Bentley: Evidence of drugs and alcohol down the pub</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/5UnRrwIPB7I/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A debate on the harms of drugs and alcohol hosted in a pub - surely not?
This week I was lucky enough to visit the epicentre of drinking and critical thinking at what claims to the be the world’s largest regular pub meeting.  An open invitation to join a garrulous group of sceptics at a forum [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Behrooz Astaneh: Trial registry - the Iranian experience</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/-h2Tqw24uhA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/19/behrooz-astaneh-trial-registry-the-iranian-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Clinical trials are the cornerstone of medical research. Multiple publications of the results of a specific trial as well as non-publication of unfavorable results are among the problems facing the medical literature. To avoid such problems, the idea of trial registries has been proposed, and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tony Waterston: Making the connection between education and practice … and a pipe band in Bethlehem</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/JcsmISJUWrA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/19/tony-waterston-making-the-connection-between-education-and-practice-and-a-pipe-band-in-bethlehem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Attending the graduation ceremony for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Child Health Diploma programme in Ramallah I fantasised over the effect of the course on children’s health. We want to see the following: thriving, well nourished infants, lively and independent minded children,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Parijaat Vaidya reviews When a mother’s love is not enough</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/dxqXVJ7L8Uw/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/18/parijaat-vaidya-reviews-when-a-mother%e2%80%99s-love-is-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As the mother of a severely disabled child and a psychiatrist working with learning disabled children, I was particularly interested in this BBC documentary which highlights the enormous challenges families face in bringing up a child with disabilities.
Presented by Rosa Monckton, mother of a girl...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Bev Collin on priorities for tackling malnutrition</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/VT6A0hvR_Cw/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/17/bev-collin-on-priorities-for-tackling-malnutrition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the World Food Summit happening this week in Rome, and thinking about my experience of working in the field of malnutrition, two very strong images came to mind.
First, rewind 17 years to September 1992, to a feeding centre in Baidoa, Somalia. This was one of the most devastating humanitarian...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Rouse and Tom Marshall: Informed consent, the doctor and H1N1 immunisation</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/P7YJz9IoRmU/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/17/andrew-rouse-and-tom-marshall-informed-consent-the-doctor-and-h1n1-immunisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How does a doctor obtain informed consent for H1N1 immunisation consistent with General Medical Council guidance? The Department of Health’s guidance does not provide sufficient information for this.  This is our attempt to rectify this omission, providing information required for informed consent...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley on unexpected outcomes</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/WGTA5go4VFA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/17/domhnall-macauley-on-unexpected-outcomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You have got to do something. Young mothers and their babies living in socially deprived areas do poorly. Isolated, unprepared, and hard to reach; the obvious way to help is through their peers. Why bother with research. It&#8217;s obvious. Just implement it.  
But, it didn’t work, and worse. At...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Vidhya Alakeson on Medicaid</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/6-OWkhcPUj0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/17/vidhya-alakeson-on-medicaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=895</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Medicaid is typically thought of as the health insurance program for the poor. But when it was created in the 1960s, it was designed to cover only three low income groups: parents and children, older adults and individuals with disabilities. Single adults without a disability and without dependent...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Payne on hypoxia, Everest-style</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/DJ0fijI-Um8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/17/david-payne-on-hypoxia-everest-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=892</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dan Martin undresses in 20-knot winds beneath the Everest summit to prepare for a femoral artery blood sample and muscle biopsy while a team of sherpas look on, entertained by what they see. The critical care anaesthetist and his three colleagues ended up on the top of the world’s highest peak two...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Harry Brown on electronic communications with patients</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/kNwcoeYMibY/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/16/harry-brown-on-electronic-communications-with-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digital media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harry Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=891</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Patient and doctor interactions are one of the cornerstones of medical care and with the advent of modern technology, there is now more than one way for doctors and patients to communicate with each other. With the rise of the mobile phone, instant two way communication has become even easier. I...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/n_xsXIkh9q0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/16/mary-e-black-on-flu-suits-and-holy-water-dispensers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=890</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Plagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in fumigators, herbal remedies, and the plague suit - predecessor of the DuPont TK555T HazMat suit, and equally unsettling...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Peter Lapsley: Degrees of care</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/qkaOyug068Y/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/13/peter-lapsley-degrees-of-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Lapsley]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There have been mixed messages from the Patients Association in response to the announcement of plans for nursing in England to become an all-graduate profession. Writing in The Times on 12 November, the Association’s director, Katherine Murphy, said the move had “sent out all the wrong messages,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Frances Dixon on medical professionalism</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/sKuApDkA1CI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/13/frances-dixon-on-medical-professionalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was flicking through my Student BMJ the other day when I came across an article on Medical Professionalism. This is a subject that I have been thinking about recently, mainly as we have just had the first of our “Personal &#38; Professional Development” sessions at medical school.
Being a medical...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Potter on not taking the swine flu vaccine</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/wGJ_vl4FtZg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/13/andrew-potter-on-not-taking-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swine flu vaccine]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of clinical staff at the hospital where I work declined invitations to be vaccinated against pandemic “swine” influenza. I think this is a worrying trend for both public health reasons and for the doctor’s integrity as a medical practitioner. There have also been reports in the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Ohad Oren: Routine operation, impeccable performance</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/bJ2ci9JZvNs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/12/ohad-oren-routine-operation-impeccable-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Bring sac close to peritoneum, drain its purulent liquid content, and have the shrunken pouch squeezed through this tiny hole.&#8221; Such was the senior surgeon&#8217;s instruction at the conclusion of a gallbladder removal operation. After the laparoscopic resection of an infected...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan: New pandemic flu guidelines - don’t forget your oximeter</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/XLkM01yr2C8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/12/tom-nolan-new-pandemic-flu-guidelines-dont-forget-your-oximeter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Nolan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[general practice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hypoxaemia]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[New guidelines on the management of pandemic H1N1 influenza were published recently by the Department of Health. They include guidelines on when to refer patients to hospital (see below) and an update on the epidemiology of the disease: fewer than 1% of cases are admitted to hospital; 12-15% of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Peter Lapsley: Please tick the box!</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Q5pK-Ijw68Q/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/12/peter-lapsley-please-tick-the-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Lapsley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dermatology]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[generic medicines]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some things never seem to change. I spent much of the ten years during which I ran the Skin Care Campaign (SCC) explaining patiently to the government and to pharmacists that, where topical treatments for skin diseases are concerned, generic substitution can present serious problems. That was not...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Louise Kenny on paraquat poisoning</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/2K_6tW99rac/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/12/louise-kenny-on-paraquat-poisoning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The night before last, one of the other doctors admitted a 22 year old male who had ingested concentrated paraquat whilst intoxicated.  At the time of admission he was 24 hours post ingestion and his presenting complaint was pain in his mouth and throat due to chemical burns.  The night shift...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Liz Wager on Einstein, David Nutt, and academic freedom</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/8uiXV8kbvZU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liz Wager]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m just back from Washington DC, where we held the first US meeting of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics). Engraved onto the building housing part of the National Academy of Sciences is a quote from Einstein which could serve as the COPE motto if we had one. It reads: &#8220;The right to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith on assessing health technology assessment</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Eke2F_pFPSM/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/11/richard-smith-on-assessing-health-technology-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The budget of Britain’s Health Technology Assessment programme has grown from £13m in 2006 to £88m in 2010, and it has conducted a swathe of trials on new technologies, published dozens of papers, and supported a study that won the BMJ paper of the year. But could it do even better? This was the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Rethinking priorities in global health</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/BVGr9Hp6nMA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/11/richard-smith-rethinking-priorities-in-global-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week’s conference to launch Edinburgh University’s Global Health Academy left me thinking that priorities in global health may be very wrong.
David Molyneaux from Liverpool said that an alien observing earth for the first time would think that it had only three diseases: AIDS, TB, and malaria....<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Emily Spry on ER in the Pikin Hospital</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/WRh7eViSRZg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/11/emily-spry-on-er-in-the-pikin-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Spry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am happy and exhausted at the end of the first week of the new Triage system and Emergency Room at the Children’s Hospital.  Around 80 children present to the hospital each day and Triage nurses now briefly assess them and rush those with Emergency signs to the new 3-bedded ER.  There they are...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Carmi Z Margolis on global health education</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/eqE-Tle4BZk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/11/carmi-z-margolis-on-global-health-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When he first entered the spacious great room, a colleague exclaimed: &#8220;What an amazing place! I&#8217;ve always wanted to come to Bellagio! How did you do it?&#8221; I imagine most of our conference participants had similar thoughts. The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Centre,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley: Excellence in Practice. RCGP Annual National Primary Care Conference.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Br-r5rrZRrE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[metabolic risk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social inequality]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Are you an apple, a pear, or even a melon? Metabolic risk is less if you have the body profile of a pear rather than an apple. If you are shaped like a melon, it is definitely time for a serious diet. You may not have noticed, however, that you are now one of the [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith on promoting health literacy</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/qD7h3NvZi9k/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/09/richard-smith-on-promoting-health-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[health literacy]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve just spent five days—yes, five days—talking about health literacy. Before my five day conversation I’d never thought much about health literacy, but now I see myself as an expert. Pick a small enough subject and you can be a world expert in about 20 minutes. But health literacy is actually a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Emily Spry on nursing in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/HeEoTX1RBpE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/09/emily-spry-on-nursing-in-sierra-leone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Spry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The nurse steps forward into the circle, putting her hands together.  She prays aloud, “in Jesus’ name,” asking that our four day workshop at the Children’s Hospital be blessed, “so that we might put everything that we have learnt into practice.”  After a rousing Christian song, we proceed directly...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Julian Sheather: Should we help people self-harm?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/n0ND4ojIids/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/05/julian-sheather-should-we-help-people-self-harm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Sheather]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-harm]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once in every while an ethical dilemma will swim across the horizon, a dilemma whose wake will induce in me a bout of moral seasickness. My compass spins, my bearings wheel and lurch. One such is the reappearance of &#8220;facilitated self-harm&#8221;. I am not over-fond of the word...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Joe Collier on swine flu and ministries of fear</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/W55KvpXUrEs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/04/joe-colliers-on-swine-flu-and-ministries-of-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Collier]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tamiflu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vacccination]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One thing about the current swine flu pandemic is that it has brought with it a universal sense of fear. As with all fears, individuals respond differently, but we know what they are feeling because the sensation of fear, which varies from a mild anxiety to incapacitating panic, is so much part of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Emily Spry’s first impressions of working in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/BH9mo1koblo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/04/emily-sprys-first-impressions-of-working-in-sierra-leone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Spry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=869</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m excited to have started at the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Freetown, after hearing so much about it from the Welbodi Partnership, the charity I’ll be working for over the next year.
On first impressions, things at the hospital look good.  There are freshly painted wards and uniformed...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Harvey Marcovitch: ‘O wad some power the giftie gie us’</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/GtWd2k1BaHg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/04/harvey-marcovitch-o-wad-some-power-the-giftie-gie-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GMC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=870</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s nice to know how others see us. Several weeks ago, a journal editor based in Europe asked my opinion on a contentious paper he had agreed to publish, had posted online, but about which he now had concerns. I told him that I did not have the scientific expertise to provide a thorough review...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Stephen Ginn on David Nutt being sacked</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/fw1mZgjI1TE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/02/stephen-ginn-on-david-nutt-being-sacked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Ginn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Nutt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=868</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Having been sacked from his position as the chief UK government drugs advisor Professor David Nutt may today be reflecting on the precarious position of anyone who seeks to advise politicians on controversial matters.
For it seems that whilst such an advisory position would appear to call for...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/xutnB0zNdCU/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/02/richard-smith-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-impact-factors-and-journals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Something has just happened that will almost certainly end the tyranny of impact factors and may well mark another step towards the extinction of most scientific journals. Did you notice it? Probably not, and even if you did you may not have understood what it was or what it may lead to.
It was the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley on exercise is medicine</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/PKQrSVdk8iA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/02/domhnall-macauley-on-exercise-is-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fergie lost it with the referee. The Manchester United manager’s public criticism of the referee’s fitness in their recent match against Sunderland made headlines. Although subsequently making a personal apology he did raise the more general issue of referee&#8217;s fitness. Perhaps it was because...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/F82KyhHcrAU/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/02/we-face-a-ssteeep-learning-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pencheon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[10:10 campaign]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carbon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[quality]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If the health service takes environmental, social and economic sustainability seriously, it is amazing how many co-benefits there are - for the health of individuals, for the health of the population, and for the cost and quality of the health care system - genuine win-wins - win now, win later....<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/92A9ULbEKzE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/30/tom-nolan-on-what-every-doctor-should-know-about-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The H1N1 vaccination programme is underway in the UK and many other countries across the globe. In Sweden a million people have already been vaccinated. One swine flu vaccine manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, expects to produce 440 million doses over the next few months. With newspapers, television...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Payne: Open access and the editor’s choice</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/9nyuzuS_yho/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/30/open-access-and-the-editors-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A management consultant friend confessed last week that despite advising many media company clients about their digital strategy, he had little interest in Web 2:0 and social networking, shunned the TV when he got home, and ate dinner with his wife while BBC Radio 3 played in the background.

Who...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Siddhartha Yadav:  My first conference as a speaker</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/zHNYYT7UgVc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/29/siddhartha-yadav-my-first-conference-as-a-speaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Junior doctors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Siddhartha Yadav]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The adrenaline rush was unbearable. I could feel my palms sweating. When I tried to clip the microphone on to my coat, my hands were trembling. Eager looking eyes of the audience were pinned on me. I took a deep breath and with my heart still pounding, I said, &#8220;Hello everyone!&#8221;

This is...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: We don’t know what to eat</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/GB9dx5iov8g/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/28/richard-smith-we-dont-know-what-to-eat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[WHO is currently setting priorities for research in chronic or non-communicable disease, and generally the first research question is “Will what has worked in rich countries work in low and middle income countries?” We know, for example, what to do to reduce deaths from heart disease and how to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Harvey Marcovitch: a flea-market hunter-gatherer</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/uH2iscopiYQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/28/harvey-marcovitch-a-flea-market-hunter-gatherer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[BMJ bloggers are in the habit of going to exotic places to listen to exciting lectures. In my time I’ve done my share of all that but a few weeks ago my medical education leapt ahead in an unlikely place – the Malvern Giant Flea Market.  In a subsidiary role as my antique dealer wife’s [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>John Coggon: Can a conscience dictate?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/nAiYjEQslO4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/26/john-coggon-can-a-conscience-dictate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If I asked a physiologist to show me where her conscience is, I’m fairly sure she’d not be able to.  Yet, it seems, a great many doctors appeal directly to their consciences, or at least wish to be free to do so.  This is a little strange.  If a patient says “God makes me do [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Julian Sheather on Mandelson’s distemper</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/HZkk4AEVy5E/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/23/julian-sheather-on-mandelsons-distemper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reader I am sick, sick if not quite unto death then very nearly unto despair. There is a gnawing within that will not let me rest. I have searched in vain for what to call my malediction. I have been sacking my shelves, rifling my dictionaries and encyclopedias, consulting with the most eminent...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley attends a BMJ Masterclass</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/23/domhnall-macauley-on-a-respiratory-medicine-masterclass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[That articulated lorry hurtling towards you may be driven by one of your fat beer drinking patients- who just has fallen asleep at the wheel. Sleep apnoea used to be a rather esoteric research field in the backroads of respiratory medicine but is now mainstream or, more alarmingly, main road. ...<div class="feedflare">
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