Indulging passions: a route to good doctoring

Most articles in The BMJ aren’t written by staff. Many are commissioned, and the rest are selected from submissions we receive through a process of open peer review and competition. When The BMJ publishes a study it has been peer reviewed by several experts, discussed at a committee by twice as many editors and methodologists, scrutinised by a statistician, revised possibly several times over, and copyedited and proofread to within an inch of its life. These decisions may be baffling to people who aren’t data literate or haven’t mastered critical appraisal and research methods, but that’s how you make it into the top 3% of submissions to The BMJ.Competition, Matt Morgan offers, may be a bad thing (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1325).1 The pursuit of excellence in professional life might be enriched by indulging the mediocre in our down time. Singing badly in a choir, making up the numbers in a sports team, and…
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