<?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%">Jones, Roger</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editor's Briefing</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%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012-09-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">451-451</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp12X653787</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">62</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">602</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Unsurprisingly, patients’ priorities for medical care are centred on diagnosis; doctors are expected to listen properly, do a physical examination, and find out and tell the patient what is wrong. Aneurin Bevan expressed this view forcibly during a debate about community hospitals: ‘I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one’. The days of wallowing in uncertainty, and perversely making a virtue out of tolerating it, are over, and first-contact clinicians have a duty of care that includes making early, accurate diagnoses as often as possible. The challenges of doing so are captured in a series of papers in this issue of the BJGP, and deftly explored in Kevin Barraclough’s editorial. We clearly aren’t there yet, and Barraclough makes a plea for more research into diagnostic decision making and the use of investigative technologies, arguing that the funding available …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>