TY - JOUR T1 - In a medical bookshop JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 161 LP - 161 VL - 57 IS - 535 AU - Gervase Vernon Y1 - 2007/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/535/161.abstract N2 - This summer I spent a day in central London walking round the area near my old medical school. My feet drifted to the bookshop. There was still a floor of medical books, but no aisle was labelled ‘general practice’. The assistant told me that there were a couple of racks at the back of the public health aisle.When I tracked them down these racks were most disappointing. One was devoted to books teaching you how to pass exams or parts of exams. The other rack seemed equally dry — explanations of the health service, academic treatises and other worthy but unexciting books. These must be the books that are selling; books young doctors in training are actually buying. … ER -