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EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
We welcome a new addition to the ADC family this month—Education and Practice—a supplement that will help clinicians practise high quality medicine in an increasingly complicated world. The supplement will focus on continuing professional development and will appear 4–6 times each year. We are aware that clinicians do not lack for information—the proliferation of textbooks, journals, newsletters, abstracting publications, and information available over the Internet or specifically for hand-held devices has only made our lives busier. We hope that clinicians will look to Education and Practice to help them keep up with changes in medicine.
See http://ep.bmjjournals.com/current.shtml
“THIS WON’T HURT!”
I recall the first time I had blood drawn from a finger prick and was reassured that the test would not hurt. I did not care for the procedure; actually the bloodletting was more painful than venipuncture. In a very simple, but important study from Greenhalgh and colleagues, 46 children with diabetes were asked to compare blood glucose testing from the forearm with finger prick sampling. Sixty-one percent felt that forearm …
