This is the second part of the BMJ Leader new blog series written anonymously by “Magical Meander”, a medical manager working in the NHS, to help align perspectives and build understanding of medical management across these two professions. Coronavirus has made us all think about antiviral vaccination. Yet in a good year we struggle to […]
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