Missing the Obvious

Missing the obvious.

Patient safety and junior doctors: are we missing the obvious?

To cite: Lemer C, Moss F. BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:8–10. Doctors in postgraduate training posts are essential for delivery of acute care in the NHS. Arguably, amongst the most engaged and energetic in the health care workforce, they occupy an organisational space that lets them see good and bad practice and experience first hand both what happens when an organisation works well and the failings tha...

Smoking, the missing drug interaction in clinical trials: ignoring the obvious.

Tobacco use is universally recognized as the foremost preventable cause of cancer in the United States and globally and is responsible for 30% of all cancer-related deaths in the United States. Tobacco use, including exposure to secondhand smoke has been implicated as a causal or contributory agent in an ever-expanding list of cancers, including lung, oral cavity and pharynx, pancreas, liver, k...

Left ventricular twist in patients with left bundle branch block: Missing the obvious in electromechanical coupling

Why plants grow poorly on very acid soils: are ecologists missing the obvious?

Factors associated with soil acidity are considered to be limiting for plants in many parts of the world. This work was undertaken to investigate the role of the toxicity of hydrogen (H(+)) which seems to have been underconsidered by ecologists as an explanation of the reduced plant growth observed in very acid soils. Racial differences are reported in plant growth response to increasing acidit...