TY - JOUR T1 - Why study? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 71 LP - 72 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X677013 VL - 64 IS - 619 AU - Don Eby Y1 - 2014/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/619/71.2.abstract N2 - In November’s Out of Hours, Trisha Greenhalgh asked the rhetorical question ‘Why study?’.1 Her reflections were prompted by one of her self-funded, mature students completing his PhD while studying part-time and working as a full-time clinician.She answered her own question by suggesting academic study resulted in both a public good and a benefit to the individual undertaking study for its own sake. As the student referred to in … ER -