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My usual approach to journals is to peruse them over breakfast during the week so I can consign them to the bin on Saturday, having noted a learning point for my ePortfolio.
I am increasingly unable to do that with the BJGP.
The January edition took a disproportional amount of time to read:1 too many useful articles, conclusions to studies that were thought provoking and resonated with my experience or suggestions to improve exercise alongside efficiency of clinical time (‘Consultations start in the waiting room’). All the Life & Times pieces were pertinent and challenging. Clinical Intelligence illuminated my non-consideration of myelopathy in cervical pain and I will now have to examine lower limbs as well … Finally ‘Corneal ulcers’ resulted in a late departure for the surgery and was immediately helpful before the morning was out.
Even this letter has taken a good 50 minutes of my first morning of annual leave in order to finally direct the journal (minus relevant torn-out pages) to recycling as I have had to re-read several of the articles and reinforced the take-home points.
And now I have the February one to process.
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