<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jewell, David</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">February Focus</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008-02-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">74-74</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp08X263983</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">58</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">547</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">My Cumbrian GP friend, who has the perspective of a doctor with experience of medicolegal work, thinks that the medical textbooks need to be rewritten. Taking subarachnoid haemorrhage and pulmonary embolism as prime examples, he points out that the textbooks list the clinical signs, without always adding that both problems can exist with no signs at all. (Favourite joke about embolism: The News Chronicle, a highly respected liberal-minded newspaper, ceased production in 1960. At the time it had an astonishing readership of something over a million, but an incompetent management. The peerless journalist James Cameron, who had worked on the News Chronicle, wrote that it died of an embolism — a good circulation impeded by clots).The textbooks are still mostly written by hospital doctors. As Paul Hodgkin points out on page 130, hospital doctors' approach patients with the expectation that …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>