TY - JOUR T1 - Loopholes JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 450 LP - 450 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X302916 VL - 58 IS - 551 AU - Emyr Gravell Y1 - 2008/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/551/450.abstract N2 - I read a story about WC Fields. Apparently a friend called to see him when he was dying and was surprised to see the hard-drinking, misanthropic comedian intently absorbed in the Bible. The friend asked him if he was seeing the error of his ways but Fields put him straight ‘I'm just looking for the loopholes’.Perhaps I shouldn't admit it in a respected journal like this, so please don't mention it to the serious folk from the Front Pages, but I seem to be increasingly approaching academic papers and evidence-based medicine with the same philosophy. Maybe I'm just changing into a Luddite as the years go by but something about the relentless trend to medicalise and intervene grates with … ER -