The Trouble with Medical Journals

The only trouble with Richard Smith, for 13 years Editor of the British Medical Journal, is that he writes well but tends to repeat himself. Editors, and ex-editors, are a small group in the medical world, but we like to think we have been influential. This book is a series of stories of Richard Smith’s interaction with prospective authors, medical researchers of all sorts, the authorities of the BMA and the public at large. In between these well told stories are his thoughts and concerns for the future of medical journals. After leaving the BMJ he went off to Venice, sat in a palazzo and unburdened himself of all his editorial worries.