{"id":35206,"date":"2015-09-14T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35206"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:39:41","slug":"the-bmj-today-a-weekend-of-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/14\/the-bmj-today-a-weekend-of-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: A weekend of tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Andrew Brown<\/a>, obituaries editor at UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, gave a great talk to me and other colleagues at The BMJ<\/em> about the Telegraph<\/em>‘s approach to chronicling the lives of assorted establishment figures, rogues, villains, entertainers, and clergy.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph’s<\/em> obituaries are legendary, and Andrew described how the title had historically used certain codewords to communicate a deceased person’s homosexuality, alcoholism, or the fact that he or she was a crashing bore. He was invited by our own obituaries editor, Birte Twisselmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, we now live in more enlightened times, and thankfully its obituary of neurologist Oliver Sacks<\/a> included not only a direct reference to him being gay, but a lovely 1961 picture of him in motorbike leathers in Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n

It’s great to learn that our own obituaries<\/a> are also much appreciated (particularly Geoff Watts’s one about Sacks<\/a>). \"IMG_0318\"<\/a>Here’s what weekend tweeter Patricia Elliott (@Trisha_the_doc<\/a>) had to say<\/a>.\u00a0As you can see, she also liked our<\/a> BMJ Confidential article about “evidence based optimist” Michael Marmot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patricia was not alone. Fellow tweeter Lauren Evans (@laurevans311)<\/a>\u00a0waded in to say she sometimes envied people their obituaries, and that they can make her feel inadequate! This certainly isn’t our intention!\u00a0On Friday I spoke to a retired doctor, now living in a London nursing home, who was looking for the obituary we published of her sister, Monica Cronin<\/a> (also a doctor), in 1990. It was great to be able to dig it out and send it on to her.<\/p>\n

Another nice weekend tweet came from Marissa Borck (@KickAsana<\/a>), who liked the blog post<\/a> we published about<\/a> the social media campaign #LookLikeASurgeon<\/a><\/p>\n

Fellow tweeter Ed Fitzgerald (@DrEdFitzgerald)<\/a>\u00a0was similarly positive about our decision to include campaign images as our print issue “picture of the week.”<\/p>\n

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Twitter can also be a source of constructive criticism, and Prof Liz Lightstone (@kidneydoc101)<\/a>\u00a0tweeted the link<\/a> to an open letter to the editor of The BMJ<\/em> about our decision to “publish and fanfare a poorly based paper<\/a>”\u00a0on weekend deaths. The blog accuses of us<\/a> of not “bigging up the NHS.” This debate is also being played out in rapid responses<\/a> to the paper.<\/p>\n

David Payne<\/strong> is digital editor, and readers’ editor,<\/em> The BMJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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