TY - JOUR T1 - Secrets and magic JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 100 LP - 100 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X677284 VL - 64 IS - 619 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2014/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/619/100.abstract N2 - Tim SeniorThe most significant event in the health service is the closing of a door. Thousands of times each day a door closes, leaving a doctor and a patient in a room together. In the vast majority of cases these are the only two people who know what happens in that event. Doctors, like any good magician, are professionally bound not to give away the secrets of the closed door. Like watching magic, people’s attention is directed elsewhere for the crucial, rather mundane, secret that shows the reality. So good are we at this magician’s sleight of hand, that most people don’t even know they’ve missed a trick.Everyone has seen … ER -