• Medical Education
• Medical Journalism

I'd like to be able to tell you that the creation of each issue, and decisions around which article is next to which, is a loving process into which we pour hours of thought and reflection, to try to make the correct links and contrasts. I'd like to tell you that, but I'm afraid it simply isn't true. Harvey Marcovitch, editor in chief until the early noughties, told me of having the entire journal printed out and spread around his house in the pre-electronic days. I could quite believe that this was a highly creative process. However, what happens for me is that one of the production team makes up an issue from what papers we need to get from online into print. I take a careful look and try to ensure that there are no glaring errors or omissions, and I might make a few suggestions about moving …