Dear colleagues and friends

I hope you have been able to enjoy this delightful Indian summer
we've been experiencing in Cambridge.

A wonderful article appeared a month or so ago in the BMJ, about
dignity and the essence of medicine. The text of the article,
together with all the rapid responses, can be read here.

www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7612/184

Another interesting article, making the case for using stories to
balance the results of surveys and RCTs, appeared in the Journal of
the Royal Society of Medicine recently; I will post this in the files
section.

All good wishes

Pip