TY - JOUR T1 - December Focus JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 938 LP - 938 VL - 57 IS - 545 AU - David Jewell Y1 - 2007/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/545/938.abstract N2 - The purpose of this column is to catch the attention of busy readers for a fleeting moment and try to convince you that it's worth dipping further into the rest of the journal. This is a statement of the glaringly obvious; only it comes as an apology that this month's opens with nothing of the sort, but with a fond and grateful farewell to Neville Goodman, whose last column appears in the Back Pages on page 1003.As he records, he has been sending these in, one a month, for almost 9 years. He has listed his favourite columns and pet topics, but to my mind the value of his contributions has been the insights he has given us into the world of hospital medicine. It has been a salutary reminder to us that GPs … ER -