A call to action

While it is always time to act,1 it can be hard to know where or how to start in a world facing unprecedented crises. This can be demoralising and frustrating, but there is one form of action we can all turn to at times like these: the call to action.A title, abstract, and keyword search (with no date restrictions applied) of Scopus for “call to action” in October 2022 yielded over 6000 results, as did a full text search of The BMJ archive. The call to action is clearly a durable and important facet of medicine that has preoccupied doctors and researchers for decades. In fact, one of the first calls to action recorded in The BMJ was in 1913.2 Looking to more recent history, calls to action have been made for many important reasons, including to prioritise patient experience in nursing practice,3 to reform academic global health partnerships,4 and…
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