TY - JOUR T1 - Medicine: are we not a muse? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 145 LP - 145 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X677590 VL - 64 IS - 620 AU - Dan Lashbrook Y1 - 2014/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/620/145.abstract N2 - To increase the chances of a place at medical school, academic stuff aside, it was often helpful to have other strings to one’s bow. I recall my year’s intake having county sportsmen, established business entrepreneurs, political sages, artists, IT impresarios, and dancers who’d stun the judges of Strictly. And that was just the front row. One hundred and fifty bright sparks with curriculum vitae packed to the gunwales. Somewhere near the back row, I sat with music as my offering alongside my Hippocratic Oath.The irony, though, is that medicine does its best to try to muffle the very bowstrings that secured us that place at medical school. Long days, on-calls, out-of-hours, research, logbooks, exam revision, meetings, QOF tables, … ER -