NEJM 28 Dec 2006
2 Jan, 07 | by BMJ Group
Your Christmas Day came to a blurry end with quantities of port wine and Stilton cheese. You don’t really remember going to bed, but soon afterwards you are aware that you have become a junior doctor working in an intensive care unit, trying to put in a central line. A sharp American voice from behind you snaps, “Doctor, your patient appears to be septicaemic. Are you aware that 20,000 US citizens die every year from catheter-related bloodstream infections?
Dear Richard
I’m usually too slow at keeping up with my own emails to read blogs , but I re-encountered yours (and read the ‘nightmare on NEJM street’) with great pleasure. It struck a chord…so little of what i read in NEJM connects with what I actually do!
Hope all is well with you
best wishes
peter
Peter sandercock
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
It may well be nightmare up on NEJM street. But, I don’t see how “learning to live with urinary tract symptoms,” or “the association between left-handedness and breast cancer” is going to help one’s clinical practice either.
It’s hard to deny that NEJM papers go on to dictate and sometimes transform internal medicine, inaccessible though it often is. At least, it knows its audience.
Balaji Ravichandran
January 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am